After Shippers’ Council Intervention Maritime Workers Suspends Strike

By Usman Ahmed
Kanempress
5th May 2023



The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), has suspended the ongoing strike against shipping companies operating at the nation’s seaports by one month .

This was due to the intervention of the port economic regulation, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), on Monday in Lagos.

Kanempress, reports that Shippers’ Council mediated on the strike action embarked upon by MWUN due to breakdown of negotiations between the Union and the Shipping Connpanies/ Agencies & Freight Forwarders Employers Association (SCAFFEA) on minimum standard of condition of service in the shipping industry.

At the meeting held at the training room of Nigerian Shippers’ Council on Monday 5th June 2023, ended up in a tripartite agreement with signatory from the union leader, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shipper’s Council, Mr. Emmanuel Jime and Mr. Ascanio Russo, representing SCAFFEA.

The communique further stated that the Maritime Workers Union and Shipping Companies/Agencies and Freight Forwarders Employers Association expressed commitment for sincere negotiations on the Minimum Standard of Condition of Service in the Industry.

It further explained that all parties agreed to a timeline of one  month starting from Monday 5th June 2023 to 4th July 2023 for completion of the negotiations.

The communique also stated that all parties agreed to establish an acceptable Minimum Standards on the Condition of Service in the Shipping Industry especially on gratuity, adding that based on the above, the Maritime Workers Union agreed to suspend the on-going industrial strike.

President General, Maritime Workers’Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Com. Adewale Adeyanju