MWUN to disrupt activities of terminals over pension irregularities

The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has vowed to disrupt activities of terminal operators and employers of seafarers’ and dockworkers over irregularities of maritime workers pensions remittance nationwide.

The President General of MWUN, Comrade Francis Bunu Abi, made the vow in a statement released by Comrade John Kennedy Ikemefuna, Head of Media, MWUN, in Lagos today.

According to the statement, the leadership of the Union recently got the wind of these employers of labour and terminal operators over their acts of irregular remittance of their employees pensions to its appropriate quarters, thereby, shortchanging the seafarers’ and their counterparts, the dockworkers, both categories of workers from the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria.

It was also learnt that some ship owners and terminal operators allegedly stopped the remittance of Dockworkers and Seafarers’ PSA in their employ, which is a gross violation of the labour laws.

Given this backdrop, the President-General of the Union, Comrade Bunu, charged that the Union will have no other options than to descend heavily and bring to book all the earring managements of these companies working against the ethics and practices of labour rules in their various companies.

The Delta State born labour leader made this point known, stressing that it’s unlawful to deny workers their pensions rights either by crook or hook,; and may not hesitate to call out these Concessionaires and Shipping Companies that have defaulted in the payment of the statutory pensions of the Union Members.

Comrade Bunu also said that these erring companies in the maritime sector would be shut down if this ugly trend is not reversed to status quo.