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STRIKE | Aviation Unions Begin Total Shutdown Of Nigeria's Airspace Today

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The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), alongside other unions in the aviation industry have threatened a nationwide strike beginning Wednesday after a seven-day ultimation issued the sector authorties elapsed Monday 20, May 2019.

The unions said the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has failed to address issues bordering on the implementation of the new organogram for NCAA  as agreed by a tripartite team comprising the unions, NCAA management and the government.

According to them, the tripartite team fashioned out a new organogram for NCAA as a result of its new status, but Hadi Sirika, Minister of State for Aviation, single-handedly changed the organogram.

They insisted that the new organogram would not create room for development of workers, adding that some who were due for promotion since 2017 were yet to be promoted, while the government was also on the verge of merging some of the directorates.

Others issues raised are review of the conditions of service as negotiated with the management by the agency’s leadership and inauguration of the Governing Board of NCAA as directed by the government in 2018.

In a circular signed by NUATE, Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP), amongst others, they insisted there was no going back on the impending grounding of activities in the regulatory agency in particular and the country’s civil aviation industry in general.

The circular read in part: “As you are all aware, our unions issued a seven days ultimatum to Federal Ministry of Transport (Aviation) AND NCAA over sundry issues. The ultimatum expired on Monday 20, May 2019.

“All this time, the ministry of transport (aviation) has completely rejected the ultimatum, while the NCAA has reacted with only halfhearted measures. This means that no single item on the demands list has been ameliorated.

“For the above purpose, all NCAA workers are to assemble at the entrance/gate of their various work places and take directive from branch union officers on location until directed otherwise.”

Hadi Sirika

Speaking over the weekend in Lagos on the issue, the minister of state, aviation, Hadi Sirika appealed to the unions to adopt dialogue, rather than grounding of the industry.

Sirika had said that the agency’s organogram could be looked into, stressing that strike action should be the last resort.

The unions had last week accused Sirika of doctoring the new organogram of NCAA and agreement reached with the agency’s management.

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