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Aviation Employees to Strike Over Minimal Wage, Others
Aviation employees’ unions have threatened to withdraw their providers over the the Federal Authorities’s refusal to launch the reviewed situation of service negotiated over seven years in the past.
Different grievances embody the non-implementation of the Nationwide Minimal Wage consequential changes and arrears for employees of the Nigeria Meteorological Company since 2019.
The union additionally rejected the deliberate demolition of aviation company buildings in Lagos to pave the way in which for an airport metropolis challenge initiated by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika.
In a discover of a two-day warning strike signed by the secretaries normal of 5 aviation unions – Nationwide Union of Air Transport Workers, Air Transport Companies Senior Employees Affiliation of Nigeria, Affiliation of Nigeria Aviation Professionals, Nationwide Affiliation of Plane Pilots and Engineers, and the Amalgamated Union of Public Company Civil Service Technical and Recreation Companies Workers – it was acknowledged that if the warning strike, scheduled to start on April 17 failed, an indefinite strike could be embarked upon.
The unions had on February 7, 2023 issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Authorities on the identical issued.
Within the newest strike discover, the unions stated that they had directed their members to adjust to the directive, including that each one state councils, branches, and executives had been mandated to implement the directive.
Copies of the discover of the warning strike have been despatched to the Airport Command of the Nigerian Police Drive, Airport Commandants of the Nigerian Air Drive, Division of State Companies, chief government officers of aviation businesses, and international airways.
The state of affairs might disrupt aviation providers in Nigeria if the economic motion sails by means of.
