Court stops NURTW from collecting union dues from truckers engaged by clearing, forwarding agencies

THE National Industrial Court (NIC)  has stopped the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) from collecting fees, dues, or any payments from truckers engaged by clearing and forwarding agencies because they are members of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN).

The Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, has ruled that the MWUN is the sole union to unionise and collect fees, dues, tolls or any payments whatsoever from all workers or persons engaged by clearing and forwarding agencies for the purpose of haulage of containerised goods.

The ruling followed a suit instituted by MWUN against the NURTW, seeking among others, “a perpetual injunction restraining  NURTW either by itself, agents, privies, officers, staff, workers or whosoever and by whatsoever name so called acting or purporting to act on its behalf from demanding fees, dues, tolls or any payments whatsoever from the claimant’s members, whether of its haulage unit or otherwise, or in any manner whatsoever coercing or doing any act consistent with compelling the members of the claimant aforesaid to pay any dues to the defendant.”

In a judgement delivered by Justice Z. M Bashire in the suit NICN/PHC/12/2015, the court granted all the prayers of the claimant (MWUN) against the defendant (NURTW), on union membership and the payment of levies or union dues.

The judgement said: “The court makes a declaration that the claimant’s members whether of its haulage unit or otherwise, not being members of the defendant, are not within the control of the defendant’s trade union and thus not liable to pay union dues, fees, tolls, or any fee of whatsoever nature to the defendant or its members.

“A declaration that the defendant cannot in law compel members of the claimant (whether of its haulage unit or otherwise ) to become members of the defendant.

“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendant either by itself, agents, privies, officers, staff, workers or whosoever  and by whatsoever name so called acting or purporting to act on its behalf from demanding fees, dues, tolls or any payments whatsoever from the claimant’s members (whether of its haulage unit or otherwise), or in any manner whatsoever coercing or doing any act consistent with compelling the member of the claimant aforesaid to pay any dues to the defendant.

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