By Bimbola Oyesola, [email protected]

Staff within the telecommunication sector of the economic system, final  weekend, reiterated  their plans to close down MTN Nigeria’s operations if  the administration of the corporate didn’t  respect the  settlement with employees.

The Personal Telecommunications and Communications Senior Employees Affiliation of Nigeria (PTECSSAN) had, final Tuesday, issued a 14-day ultimatum to the telecoms service supplier forward of the corporate’s dividend fee in April.

The union, an affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), stated in an announcement signed by its president, Opeyemi Tomori, and normal secretary, Okonu Abdullahi, that MTN Nigeria had refused to evaluate the remunerations of its workers, in addition to ignored the introduction of exit advantages.

The union maintained that regardless of the declaration of N1.7 trillion as turnover for the full-year 2021, the MTN administration has turned a blind eye to the yearnings of the workers.

In accordance with the union, points referring to remuneration of employees, absence of mutually negotiated exit advantages, inhumane retirement advantages, worker relations practices, and abuse of expatriate quota, amongst others, had been the crux of the matter.

“It has turn into inevitable that our union points this 14-day ultimatum to alert the general public of an imminent industrial motion and the disruption it might trigger MTN community subscribers, companies, enterprise companions and associates,” the union stated.

The union defined that the corporate has remained adamant, insisting that every one the employees’ situations of service as said within the firm’s coverage should stay so and can’t be negotiated, stating that the corporate’s stance negates the settlement signed on the Ministry of Labour to completely renegotiate the employees’ situations of service.

“It’s inequitable that MTN employees serve and go away the corporate in penury, with only a handshake from an organization that declares income in trillions 12 months in, 12 months out,” the union’s president stated.

He said that as a accountable commerce union, PTECSSAN wouldn’t permit the corporate to proceed to ignore related legal guidelines of the land that defend employees’ rights, particularly rights to arrange and cut price.

The union emphasised that the MTNN administration should conform to a two-week bodily assembly to spherical off the CBA negotiation and signal the doc.

The union stated it could “now not be in any assembly with out each the chief govt officer and the chief human sources officer in attendance.”

“MTNN administration ought to instantly carry the embargo it positioned on some employees from membership of the union by speaking to them (Degree 3 and above workers) that they’re free to hitch the union, since membership is within the first occasion voluntary.

“MTNN administration ought to cease forthwith the obnoxious coverage that threatens membership of the union. MTNN provides full recognition to the union as the only real negotiating physique for its members and for whoever among the many workers to learn from the negotiated objects of the union have to be able to pay membership dues.”

The union warned that, if any of those calls for weren’t met on or earlier than Wednesday, February 23, 2022, it could mobilize along side different sister unions affiliated to NLC inside and outdoors the corporate for industrial motion that may power the administration to grant their calls for.