Oil workers threaten firms over collective bargaining agreement .

WORKERS in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria have threatened to disrupt operations in the sector if oil and gas companies refused to put in place Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in their various companies.
CBA is a document that contains agreements between management and the employees’ union stating scope of the business, relationship between both parties and the extant labour laws regulating the industry. It is duly signed by two parties, that is management and workers union.
It could be classified into procedural (the processes) and substantive (actual) welfare and jobs of the employees. CBA is provided for in the extant labour laws, the International Labour Organisation’s conventions and the constitution.
The workers urged Federal Government, especially the Federal Ministries of Petroleum, Labour and Productivity, as well as Interior, to call oil and gas companies that have not had any CBA in place, to do so as a way of guaranteeing industrial stability in the sector.
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