Aviation Workers Threaten to Shut Air Operations
October 15, 2007
Workers in the country's aviation sector have resolved to embark on a nationwide industrial action beginning from midnight October 21.
This is to press home demands for the payment of terminal entitlements of the former staff of the liquidated Nigeria Airways.
The air workers said the strike would be targeted at grounding aviation operations, both local and international, all over the country.
In a statement issued by the unions under the umbrella of Aviation Union Grand Alliance, the aggrieved workers said they have resolved to resume the suspended strike.
The alliance is made up of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUA-TE), Air Transport Service Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSAN) and National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE).
In the notice of strike, jointly signed by Comrade Imonitie Itua of NUATE, Engr. Lukman Animashaun of NAAPE and Comrade Gideon C. Ogbuji of ATSSAN, the workers said they were forced to resume the strike following the failure of the Federal Government to live up to its words on the settlement of benefits of disengaged staff of defunct national carrier.
"Having met and considered the lack of progress on the issue of the payment of terminal entitlements of staff of the liquidated Nigeria Airways, we have resolved to issue to the Federal Government the resumption of the suspended strike," they said.
The unions said they had earlier suspended the strike at the instance of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Ambassador Babagana Kin-gibe, who promised that the issue would be addressed once the Federal Executive Council was constituted.
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