CRFFN pays five months’ outstanding salaries of staff after MWUN’s strike threat

The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) has paid five months’ outstanding salaries out of seven months arrears owed its staff.

President General of the Maritime Workers Union ( MWUN) Comrade Adewale Adeyanju announced this in a statement issued on Thursday.

The payment comes after the Union threatened to withdraw its services over unpaid seven months salaries of its members who are employees of CRFFN .

Adeyanju expressed appreciation to the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy Adegboyega Oyetola for his intervention in resolving the salaries arrears issue.

The Union however, urged the CRFFN to settle the remaining two months’ outstanding salaries as soon as possible.

“MWUN hereby expresses its heartfelt appreciation to the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy for his timely intervention, demonstrating unwavering commitment to workers’ welfare in the maritime sector, his dedication and humane leadership has made a significant difference.

“Whilst thanking the Acting Registrar of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria for cooperating with Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria and seeing to the payment of five months’ salary arrears, the Union urges the CRFFN management to settle the remaining two months’ outstanding salaries as soon as possible.

“MWUN also reminded the Honourable Minister that having paid only five months’ out of the seven months arrears owed to the workers, the CRFFN management now has two months in outstanding staff salaries to settle.

“The Union hereby further appeals for the support of the Honourable Minister and demands that the CRFFN completes the task post-haste, by immediately settling the remaining two months arrears, ” the statement reads.