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Aviation Workers Suspend Planned Nationwide Strike, Sign Agreement With FG

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Recall that the aviation workers under the aegis of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP) had announced a nationwide strike action scheduled to kick-off on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, over poor welfare and unimplemented agreements with the Federal Government (FG).


However, the planned nationwide strike of all unions in the industry scheduled to commence today, Tuesday has been suspended.

This followed a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) signed between the workers and the Federal Ministry of Aviation in the early hours of Tuesday.

The agreement was signed by both parties after the conclusion of a conciliation meeting presided over by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige.

Speaking on the agreement reached, Ngige said, “The National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission was requested to issue a service-wide circular informing all organisations in the public and private sectors that they are bound to implement the National Minimum Wage of 2019/consequential adjustments.

“The Ministry of Aviation is to circulate the circular on the consequential minimum wage adjustment to all the agencies under the supervision of the ministry, requesting them to implement the National Minimum Wage consequential adjustment without any further delay and also clarify that this payment became effective from April 18, 2019, when the Minimum Wage was signed into law.”

According to Ngige, the meeting agreed that those that had left the system from April 18, 2019, to date, would also be paid arrears.

Ngige further said, “The meeting noted that some categories of workers in the aviation sector attract some peculiar allowances, which are not extended to others and stated that those salary structures that are not captured in the Memorandum of Terms of Settlement signed and dated 9th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th October 2019 between the Federal Government and organised labour on the consequential adjustment of other wages, would attract consequential adjustment.

“This is as agreed during the negotiations of the Federal Government with the labour centres- The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria in October 2019.”

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