MWUN Targets Total Computerization of Members, ICT Compliance

The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has disclosed it’s working towards total computerization and ICT compliance of its members. 

Comrade Leke Sanni, president, Nigerian Ports Authority branch of the Union said that information technology is essential, and the management of the union is working on providing equipment that would make the work easier for workers.

Also, the Union promised to maintain the tempo on international and local training for members in 2013, even as it has promised to motivate the workers better by improving on their welfare packages.

According to Sanni these trainings are very essential for members of the union to become better on their respective jobs.

The president also said that the union on its own has been sending people on both local trainings and even beyond the shores of the country so as to make them become proactive on the job, but this year it intends to further improve upon it.

He seized the time recounting some of the achievements recorded last year by the union, adding that MWUN was able to educate their members with a programme tagged ‘life after retirement’ which started last year and is still in progress.

In his words: “We don’t want to start the training when people are about three months or two months to go, so we trained people that are up to six years to three years to leave the organisation on how to involve themselves in viable little, little business that can sustain them”.

In view of the accumulated pressure of life after retirement has caused a lot of retires, he alluded that the management is doing everything possible so as to ensure that its members do not experience what the past ex-staff of the union had faced during their time.

“We don’t want them to fall into the trap the way the past ex-staff had fallen, especially on the trap of pennywise by these ‘wonder banks’, some of them were duped and it resulted to death, even some of them were afflicted with stroke when they could not recover their money, and that is why we are educating our members on how to live their lives after retirement”, he said.

He also called on the management of NPA no to relent on workers’ training, which he noted leads to productivity.