- TCN to experience 14 days strike due to unresolved labour concerns.
- Problems were said to originate from the 2021 promotion process under NUEE.
- Management pledged to investigate all options for resolving the situation within two weeks.
Electricity employees in Nigeria have sent the control of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, a 14-day strike notice over unresolved labour concerns, threatening to go on strike if the administration does not address their grievances.
Workers, among others, condemned management’s failure to address problems originating from the 2021 promotion process under the auspices of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE.
In a petition to the Managing Director\Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of TCN, dated May 18, 2022, General Secretary of NUEE, Joe Ajaero, lamented that 67 managers going to senior manager and are holders of NEPA Training certificates (k1-k5) were unjustifiably not invited for the 2021 promotion exercise, 196 system operators going from Senior Managers, SM, to Principal Manager, PM who passed the interview.
But yet to be promoted out of the two 262 and TCN’s implementation of strange Memo HCSF/SPSO/R&WP/649373 dated May 29, 2020, on the re-engagement of severed defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, staff in the public service after payment of severance packages which has become an instrument for victimization and disenfranchisement.
The petition points out that the subject of complaints emerging from the year 2021 promotion exercise was reviewed, among other things, during the last National joint consultative meeting between the Union and TCN Management on March 4, 2022.
“You will also recall that management informed the meeting that no position/decision has been taken since the committee established to review the allegations ended its task in November 2021,” the petition said.
Management pledged to investigate all options for resolving the situation within two weeks at the mentioned National joint consultative conference. But unfortunately, two months after the union/management meeting, we are still in the dark about management’s decision/action (if any) to comprehensively address the issues, and the field pressure continues.