Posted: 5:54 AM | Mar. 31, 2005
Agence France-Presse
ABUJA -- Nigerian oil workers declared Wednesday that it would take a miracle to avert a nationwide strike after talks with government and oil majors on working conditions broke down in deadlock. A three-day "warning strike" is due to begin on April 11 in protest at what the unions see as a creeping use of casual labor by international energy giants and the government.
News of the protest is likely to force world oil prices higher.
"The meeting has had no effect on our planned action, except if some miracle happens between now and Tuesday. But for now nothing has changed," Peter Akpatason, the leader of one of the blue-collar union NUPENG told Agence France-Presse. <snip>
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