Gabon oil union consults members on strike action

LIBREVILLE, March 17 (Reuters) - Gabon's main energy sector trade union is consulting members on possible strike action over the sector's failure to implement minimum quotas for local labour, it said on Thursday.

The government agreed last October that all executive posts and 90 percent of total posts in the roughly 250,000-barrels-per-day sector be given to locals, but unions insist the regulation has not been implemented.

"Lack of job security, miserable working conditions for Gabonese, excessive use of foreign labour -- there's been no progress. We are going to consult our members on what action to take," ONEP General Secretary Guy-Roger Aurat Reteno told Reuters by telephone.

ONEP said there about 5,000 workers in the sector of which about 4,000 are ONEP members. (Reporting by Phal Gualbert Mezui Ndong; writing by Mark John, editing by Anthony Barker)