Aviation workers threaten nationwide strike over 50% revenue slash

 

Aviation workers threaten nationwide strike over 50% revenue slash


Nigerians may soon have to deal with delayed flights as aviation employees have declared their intention to go on a statewide strike on August 21, 2024, in protest of the Federal Government's ongoing withholding of fifty percent from the internal revenue of major aviation organizations.


This was disclosed by the unions in a letter headed "Save Aviation From Collapse," dated August 14, 2024, and distributed to media on Thursday, August 15. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Nigerian Meteorological Services Agency, Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, NCAA, and Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau are among the organizations in the industry that are impacted. 

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The letter in part reads;

 

“All workers of the NCAA, FAAN, NAMA, NiMet, NCAT, and NSIB, joined by the solidarity of all aviation workers, are hereby directed to embark on peaceful protests at all airports nationwide on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, to demand the discontinuation of deduction of 50 per cent from the internally generated revenue of the agencies mentioned above through exemption.

All efforts on our part have failed to impress upon the Federal Government that all the agencies are cost recovery and not profit-making organisations. As such they cannot survive on half of their incomes under any model of administration or any other guise whatsoever,” 

 

The unions issued a warning, claiming that the financial burden of the deductions was already compromising vital safety operations inside these organizations. They issued a warning, saying they would not be held accountable if these budgetary restraints cause the aviation sector to go into disorder. 


 

“Information available to us indicates that some important safety critical activities of the agencies are grinding to a halt under the yoke of the deductions.

 

As a result, it is now our duty as trade unions and aviation employees to inform the public and the government that we will not be held accountable should the industry become dysfunctional as a result of financial incapacity brought on by the deductions at source, the union stated.

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The unions have instructed all state councils, women's commissions, youth councils, and union branches across the country to mobilize their members to the fullest extent possible in order to ensure maximum adherence to the strike order. 






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