NUSDE calls for synergy between management and staff of Port-Harcourt mall

President National Union of Shop and Distributive Employees , Mr. Innocent Jaja has urged management of Port-Harcourt Mall to ensure that the welfare of their staff are paramount. Mr. Jaja gave this advise when the union paid a sympathy visit to the management of Port-Harcourt mall following a recent gas explosion at the mall. "As a Union we felt that is important we must come here and see things for ourselves ,sympathy with management,and workers and reassure them that the Union will always be there,because to us ,the Union, the workers and the management is a tripartite thing,we are partners in progress, so we have come here to tell them that we have had what happen, and we are sorry about it,but thanking God it did not go more than this." Mr. Jaja who said efforts should be made to give those injured, proper treatment, appealed to the management to ensure that their staff are insured. Also, State Vice chairman United Labour congress, Mr. Innocent Lord-Douglas said cordial relationship between management and the union is necessary to create good working environment. "We are here to let the management that what has happen calls for an opportunity where they will create better working relationship with their workers." In her response, manager Port-Harcourt Mall, Mrs. Chioma Okorie while thanking the union for the visit stressed that what happened was a slight mistake from the part of the technician and not a bomb explosion as speculated in the social media. Mrs. Okorie said arrangement has been put in place to organize more training for staff, reiterating the management’s commitment in the welfare of its staff. Our Correspondent reports that activities has resumed in the mall as persons were seen carrying out their businesses in the mall.