There are indications that the airport unions, the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), will be embarking on a nationwide strike on the night of Sunday, October 25. According to reports, there will be no flight operations in all the airports across the country as all terminals will be shut.
The two leading unions in the aviation sector threatened on Thursday, October 22, that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) will be shutdown at Sunday midnight to halt the operations scheduled for Monday, October 26.
The action is owing to certain defaults on the part of the NCAA in line with the condition of service in the industry. The unions were said to have in a letter dated Wednesday, October 21, 2015 to their members accused NCAA of not adhering to the condition of service with respect to promotion of workers and other welfare issues.
The secretaries general of NUATE and NAAPE, Comrades Olayinka Abioye and Aba Ocheme respectively, who jointly signed the letter threatened to shut down the agency from midnight Sunday till further notice. They stressed that there was the need to safeguard the integrity of NCAA’s condition of service hence, the withdrawal of service by the workers
The unions stated that the action of the director general of NCAA, Captain Muhtar Usman, breached section 3.4 of conditions of service. It added that all efforts to discuss with the management had proved.
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Nigeria can be so messed up sha............the whole airport...... Do they know the inconvenience it will cause
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