NEW YORK: Normal activities will today return to the nation’s ports as Maritime Workers’ Union of Nigeria, MWUN, suspended its strike after two days.
The union had last Thursday embarked on strike to protest, among others, nine months unpaid wages to over 3,000 tally clerks and onboard security men; midstream discharge of vessels in Lagos, Bonny, Rivers State, and other ports formation nationwide and using foreigners in violation of the law.
Specifically, the union had acussed the management of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, of conniving with shipping companies to undermine the nation’s economic interests by allowing midstream discharge without following laid down rules and regulations.
MWUN had claimed that besides the nine months unpaid wages to over 3,000 tally clerks and onboard security men, NPA was also owing the workers over one year arrears of 10 percent increment.
