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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Enrty | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Should Joshua Dariye return as Plateau State Governor after the end of emergency rule? No Yes Indifferent View results NPA Workers Vow to Disrupt Ports Concessioning By Francis Ugwoke, 11.18.2004 Aggrieved that the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) is yet to address labour issues, even as it has made progressive impact in the concessioning drive, members of the Maritime Workers Union (MWUN) yesterday  vowed to bring to a halt the next stage of the exercise. Workers at the ports, particularly in the terminals which fall into the first phase of the concessioning exercise, were directed by their unions not to allow the next stage, which is due diligence being planned by the BPE. The workers were asked to be ready to chase away officials of the BPE and concerned concessionnaires who are billed to come for due diligence of the Apapa and Container  terminals any time from now. President of the Senior Staff Association of the NPA, Comrade Peter Abolarin, told THISDAY that this was the only option left for the workers as he accused the BPE of not showing enough seriousness in addressing labour issues along side the concessioning programme. Abolarin accused the BPE management of making tame promises on the pages of newspapers. He maintained that no due diligence will be carried out at the ports except all labour issues were addressed. He accused the BPE of being in a hurry to concession the ports while  refusing to address the fate of workers that will be affected by the reform. The labour leader noted that this is even as the  Ports Act was yet to be passed into law, adding that in other parts of the world where a similar landlord port model was introduced, this was not the case. BPE plans to complete the concessioning of Apapa and Container terminals latest February next year.             REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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