Air transport workers threaten strike over welfare

The Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria on Sunday threatened to call out its members for strike if the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority failed to meet its demands.

The National President of ATSSSAN, Mr Benjamin Okewu, issued the threat in a verbal expression in Lagos a replica of which was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria.

Okewu verbally expressed the amalgamation had authoritatively mandated that all pending issues on workers’ welfare afore the NCAA management should be resolved afore July 5.

“It was amassed that so many outstanding employees’ files on welfare is consequential, allowances, peregrinate claims, have been piled up on the desk of the Director-General of NCAA, Engr. Benedict Adeyileka, and unattended to since in the last 10 to 12 months,” he verbalized.

He expressed the union’s displeasure with the way the aviation agencies were handling the 2014 staff training.

The ATSSSAN boss withal injuctively authorized that the amalgamation should be furnished with the staff training proposals by all agencies in the aviation sector.

The agencies are NCAA, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Federal Airport s Authority of Nigeria, Accident Investigation Bureau and the Nigeria College of Aviation Technology.

Okewu argued that human capacity development in the sector could not be ignored due to the expanding investment prospects and safety challenges in the industry worldwide.

He, however, called for the full implementation of the approved conditions of accommodation for workers in the industry.

He verbally expressed the coalescence would move its national secretariat ephemerally to the NCAA headquarters until the issues of staff welfare were resolved.