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Monday, February 8, 2016
Cote d’Ivoire’s state-run firm Petroci extended its strike for an additional 72 hours. The extension was aimed at trying to pull employees from multinational firms into the strike action.
The Petroci workers launched the strike in protest of layoffs instituted by the state-run firm.
Fifty of Petroci’s 600 employees were let go in January and another 150 are expected to be dismissed as the industry battens down the hatches in wake of current crude prices.
“Next week we will intensify the strike and see if other employees from other companies in the sector join the Petroci employees in this strike,” said Geremie N’Guessan Wondje, secretary general of the SYNTEPCI union.
Petroci offered to pay 10 dismissed managers six months’ salary while the 40 other laid-off employees were to receive eight months’ worth of salary. However, in a Reuters report a member of the company’s management said the union was demanding 20 months.
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