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Nigeria calls off strike threat



By Upstream staff 

Nigerian oil workers' union Pengassan has called off an industry-wide strike threat and plans to resume talks with ExxonMobil over a labour dispute later this week.

Bayo Olowoshile, General Secretary of the senior oil workers' union Pengassan said union leaders and ExxonMobil officials had agreed at talks with high-level government officials late last week to meet again in the capital Abuja on Wednesday.

The dispute is over the sacking of about 100 Nigerian workers by ExxonMobil.

The union had threatened to call a strike in the oil sector from last Wednesday, but postponed a decision ahead of the talks with government and until after a series of Muslim and Christian public holidays which culminate on 24 March.


Monday, 24 March, 2008, 16:03 GMT  | last updated: Monday, 24 March, 2008, 16:19 GMT

Talks back on Wednesday: Pengassan General Secretary Bayo Olowoshile
 

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