Air travel faces threat as aviation workers begin strike today

Air travel faces threat as aviation workers begin strike today

The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has directed all its members in the aviation logistics companies in Nigeria to begin strike on Wednesday (today) over poor working conditions.

NUATE’s General Secretary, Ucheme Aba, in a circular, gave the directive.

He said the union had exhausted all other options to resolve the lingering crisis over extreme impoverishment of employees of Aviation Security (AvSec) & logistics subsector of the aviation industry in Nigeria.

The circular said the managements of all the companies in the aviation had failed to secure decent contracts that could avail fair remuneration for their workers.

“With current salary levels as low as N30,000 a month for graduates, there is no gainsaying that AvSec employment in Nigeria is nothing other than a slave labour camp; to call a spade a spade.

“This situation can no longer be allowed to continue. In this regard, and further to our letter of ultimatum dated 26th June, 2023, all workers in all aviation logistics companies in Nigeria are hereby directed to totally withdraw services as from August 16, 2023 indefinitely, until our demand for fair remuneration is met,” the union said.