By John Kennedy Ikemefuna
Maritme Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MWUN), under the leadership of Comrade Francis Bunu Abi has threatened a shutdown of the Crown FlowerMills Plc; Lagos, over the unionization of its workers at the Ports.
The Union has cohabitated with the multinational company for the past twenty -two years within the Ports premises and has continually being denied access to unionize the workers in its employ, in spite of the fact that the workers fall under the category of Maritme Workers’ Union of Nigeria.
The sad situation the Crown FlowerMills workers have been subjected to shows how oppressive and suppressive the Workers’ have been subjected to under Crown FlowerMills management for the past twenty-two years running.
The PG of MWUN, Comrade Bunu, is saddened that this kind of oppression and manipulation of Workers’ can still take place in this modern era of workers globalization labour initiative, where Workers’ rights cannot be shortchanged, especially within their territory of operations.
The foremost Maritme Labour leader in the country has vowed to unionize the workers, and if resisted by the management of Crown FlourMills, the Union will be forced to withdraw the services of all the Crown FlourMills Staff in the Ports, as no germain Union would allow a “foreign” Union into its promises to unionize its own under its jurisdiction.
He added that if this exercise was successful in Warri, Delta State, nothing would stop it here at the Lagos Ports; saying Lagos can’t be an exception of good labour initiative in practice.
