MWUN Assures Dockworkers Of Welfare, Gratuities

The leadership of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has assured dockworkers in the Eastern Ports of improved welfare packages, entitlements and gratuities.
MWUN also said dockworkers working with terminal operators in the nation’s seaports are entitled to their benefits.
President General, MWUN, Comrade Prince Adeyanju Adewale, stated this recently in Port Harcourt during an interview.
noting that the welfare of Dockworkers are key and paramount to the leadership of MWUN, Adewale insisted that he would ensure total reforms and transformation of MWUN as the President General before leaving office.
The reforms and transformation of MWUN to standards, especially the dockworkers, he said, would enable them to compete favourably with their global counterparts.
“No single Dockworker working in any Nigerian Port would go home empty-handed at retirement”, he said.
The MWUN President further noted that dockworkers working at the terminals are not tauts, but scientific labourers who have acquired modern education like any other person in the Ports.
“The era of ‘hire and fire’ has gone in the lives of Nigerian dockworkers in the nation’s seaports”, he said.
To the newly elected officers of dockworkers  in the Eastern Ports, Adewale admonished them to be their brother’s keeper and carry every body alone as a union.
He urged them to shun acts capable of tarnishing the corporate image of MWUN
Also Speaking, the Branch President, Dockworkers, Eastern Ports, Ibrahim Ohize, charged the newly elected Chairmen to exhibit love and brotherhood and love for themselves.
Earlier, the Trustee, Dockworkers Branch, MWUN, Rivers State Chapter, Comrade Harry Waite, observed, due to the peaceful mature of the elections, that the Dockworkers’ elections in the Eastern Ports has proved to Nigerian politicians that they can do better.
Comrade Harry who advised the elected executives across Onne, Akwa Ibom, Calabar, Rivers Port and Warri to love one another and do their works to promote humanity.
Comrade Adewale, accompanied by top officials of MWUN, were in Port Harcourt for the Dockworkers Branch, Eastern Ports 5th District Quadrennial elections held on Friday.

By: Chinedu Wosu