THE two workers' unions in the nation's Petroleum industry; Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, have rejected purported Service Level Agreement, SLA, reached between the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and the Oil Producers Trade Section, OPTS, reducing duration of service contract to six months.
NUPENG and PENGASSAN lamented that the jobs that used to be permanent, was converted to three years service contract and now NCDMB that ought to protect Nigerians against international oil companies, IOCs, for reasons best known to it decided to sell Nigerian workers into slavery.
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