Telecommunication Workers For Warning Strike

Workers in the telecommunications and communications sector have
threatened to embark on a three-day warning strike over what they
described as the insecure working conditions and gross disregard
for laws by their employers.

The workers under the union, Private Telecommunications and
Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN),
issued the warming after the National Administrative Council (NAC)
meeting in Lagos on Thursday.

In a statement by President Comrade Opeyemi Tomori and the
General Secretary Comrade Okonu Abdullai respectively, the workers
said the warning strike will commence on the 16th of June,
2021.

They said the strike becomes inevitable because of growing
insecure working conditions in the sector and gross disregard for
the laws and its institutions.

Some of the affected companies, according to the union, include:
HUAWEI Technologies Nigeria Limited, ATC, 9Mobile, Globacom, Smile,
IHS, AIRTEL, IPNX Nigeria, SPECTRANET, MAINONE, ntel, Swift and
others.

The union said: “This is the 21st century but workers in the
sector are still being treated like slaves even though slavery has
long been abolished all over the world.

“We have made series of efforts in the past, including but not
limited to escalating the issues to Minister of Labour and
Employment, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy and the
House Committee on Communications, yet, these employers believe
they are bigger than the nation and would not respect our
institutions.

“Our other demand by the union include: Immediate recall of the
severed officer in NOKIA and other workers sacked in Huawei
Technologies Nigeria Limited; Immediate withdrawal of warning
letters and threats issued to the leaders of the workers in Huawei
Technologies ;Immediate commencement of discussion and negotiation
of Procedural Agreement and Collective Bargaining Agreement with
the Union for the workers in Huawei Technologies and other
companies in the sector; Immediate regularization of employment of
all the casual workers in the sector.

“We reject casualisation of workers in the sector under any form
of guise be it sub-contracting or outsourcing. Also, a stop to
continued abuse of expatriate quota policy in the sector.”

Workers in the telecommunications and communications sector have
threatened to embark on a three-day warning strike over what they
described as the insecure working conditions and gross disregard
for laws by their employers.

The workers under the union, Private Telecommunications and
Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN),
issued the warming after the National Administrative Council (NAC)
meeting in Lagos on Thursday.

In a statement by President Comrade Opeyemi Tomori and the
General Secretary Comrade Okonu Abdullai respectively, the workers
said the warning strike will commence on the 16th of June,
2021.

They said the strike becomes inevitable because of growing
insecure working conditions in the sector and gross disregard for
the laws and its institutions.

Some of the affected companies, according to the union, include:
HUAWEI Technologies Nigeria Limited, ATC, 9Mobile, Globacom, Smile,
IHS, AIRTEL, IPNX Nigeria, SPECTRANET, MAINONE, ntel, Swift and
others.

The union said: “This is the 21st century but workers in the
sector are still being treated like slaves even though slavery has
long been abolished all over the world.

“We have made series of efforts in the past, including but not
limited to escalating the issues to Minister of Labour and
Employment, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy and the
House Committee on Communications, yet, these employers believe
they are bigger than the nation and would not respect our
institutions.

“Our other demand by the union include: Immediate recall of the
severed officer in NOKIA and other workers sacked in Huawei
Technologies Nigeria Limited; Immediate withdrawal of warning
letters and threats issued to the leaders of the workers in Huawei
Technologies ;Immediate commencement of discussion and negotiation
of Procedural Agreement and Collective Bargaining Agreement with
the Union for the workers in Huawei Technologies and other
companies in the sector; Immediate regularization of employment of
all the casual workers in the sector.

“We reject casualisation of workers in the sector under any form
of guise be it sub-contracting or outsourcing. Also, a stop to
continued abuse of expatriate quota policy in the sector.”