NUEE Threatens Strike Over Detention Of EEDC Workers

The South East Zone of
the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has threatened to shut  operations of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) if management of the power firm continues with the alleged dehumanisation and slave treatment of workers.
The union said about fifteen Senior managers and storekeepers in the Onitsha Business area of the firm had been arrested over allegation of sharp practices particularly in lowering electricity billing and metering for residents in Anambra State.
While briefing newsmen at the end of a meeting by NUEE to review challenges facing members in the zone, Senior Assistant General Secretary of the union, Comrade Cyprian Ndubusi Akoh disclosed that NUEE plans to embark on industrial action if the management of EEDC continued with maltreatment of its members in the company.
He called on relevant authorities including the management of EEDC to prevail on the firm to stop such inhuman treatment to NUEE members under the firm.
Describing it as management recklessness, the union urged the management of the company to release all NUEE members under detention or face the wrath of the union.
“We therefore call upon the relevant authorities including the EEDC management to halt this management recklessness and effect the release of all those detained. Failure to do so, the union should not be blamed if our members withdraw their services,” he said.
He explained that it was unfair to arrest the workers on the ground that revenue has dropped in spite of their investments.

Chris Olouh