Electricity Workers threatens Strike

THE National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has threatened to embark on industrial ac­tion if the management of the
Port Harcourt Elec­tricity Distribution Com­pany (PEDC) does not implement the agreement reached with the union.

Briefing newsmen yesterday in Owerri, the Assistant National Sec­retary of the union, Mr. Akoh Cyprian Ndubuisi, warned the power com­pany to henceforth, stop its anti- labour activities and immediately recall the 43 Distribution System Operators, who were arbi­trarily dismissed without due process and to put an end to the causalisation of workers.

Akoh regretted the de­liberate refusal of the com­pany to negotiate with the union on the company’s procedural agreement and conditions of service, aimed at stemming the tide of exploitation and dehu­manisation of workers of the company.

He accused the Port Harcourt Electricity Com­pany of enslaving its work­ers with impunity, warning that the union would no longer fold its arms and watch while its members are being maltreated by the company.

“The management of the Port Harcourt Electric­ity Distribution Company should not misinterpret our love for peace and patrio­tism as a sign of weakness as labour would not hesi­tate to resume its indus­trial action if the agreement reached is not implemented before 26, August 2015.

The Port Harcourt Elec­tricity Distribution Com­pany is the only company, out of the 18 investors that has deliberately refused the union to operate.”