Louis Ogbeifun points oil workers, labour towards tomorrow, by Owei Lakemfa
” The President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, Festus Osifo, who also doubles as PENGASSAN President, at the August 5, 2026, meet in Port Harcourt, laid bare the climatic changes in the oil industry and the unprecedented managerial and labour winds sweeping through the sector.
He told labour to safeguard negotiation transfer protections by ensuring a “minimum 12-month job retention guarantee, pension and benefit continuity with new operators, union recognition clause binding on acquirer (and) retrenchment package floors if redundancies occur.” So, he asked the union to engage all the regulatory agencies and negotiate workforce retention ratios, ensure that CBA renegotiation includes a just transition component and redundancy floors.
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