Barge operators, MWUN partner to deepen maritime security
The Barge Operators Association of Nigeria (BOAN) has partnered Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) to improve waterway transportation in Lagos by ensuring compliance with safety operations. Barge Operators disclosed the inauguration of a new barge operations committee on Wednesday…
NPA Commends MWUN for shelving proposed strike
The management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) hereby commends members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) for shelving their proposed three-day warning strike scheduled to start on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. The withdrawal of the strike followed…
NIMASA Assures Dockworkers of Improved Welfares
…Meets NJIC on Collective Bargaining Agreement The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has assured stakeholders of its commitment to the protection of the rights and welfare of dockworkers as guaranteed in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Decent Work…
Ports Paralysis continues today even as NPA mediates between IOCs, MWUN
Midway into day one of the nationwide strike embarked upon by Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) on Wednesday, the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has given an indication that the erring International Oil Companies (IOCs) who had…
Total shutdown imminent at ports as Maritime Workers begins strike Wednesday
Unless there is a fruitful intervention by relevant stakeholders’ today, all is set for resumption of a nationwide strike on Wednesday, July 3, 2019 by the members of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN). Recall that the body had earlier…
Dockworkers’ 14-day ultimatum on salary arrears yet to receive FG’s attention
Barely one week after the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) issued a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to compel the International Oil Companies (IOCs) to pay all outstanding bill on stevedoring owed dockworkers, the Ministry of Transportation or…
Chevron don’t meddle in issues between contractors and their employees—Brikinn
Leading oil and gas conglomerate, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), has reacted to the 21-day ultimatum given by the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) to furnish it with list of all the maritime companies providing marine services for Chevron for…
MWUN gives FG June to fix failed Tin-Can Island end of Oshodi-Apapa Expressway or…
In view of the endless rhetoric of the federal government in fixing unmotorable Tin-Can Island Port end of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, the leadership of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), has handed down a one month ultimatum to the…
Saipem faces shut down over $29m debt owed NPA, workers
There are indications that the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) is at the verge of causing a shut down in the operations of Saipem in Nigeria over the company’s complicity in debts running into more than $29 million (N10.6…
MWUN links lack of modern facilities, regulatory safety standards to rising boat mishaps
President of the Seamen/NIWA and Water Transportation branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Mr. Francis Bunu has traced the disturbing surge in boat mishaps in Lagos and other parts of the country to lack of modern facilities…
