Aviation unions within the nation’s aviation sector have directed all employees to embark on a peaceable protest throughout all airports within the nation on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, to demand the discontinuation of fifty% discount of their revenues of the NCAA, FAAN, NAMA, NiMET, NCAT and NSIB by the Federal Authorities.
The unions disclosed this in a press release made accessible to LEADERSHIP on Thursday titled, ‘Save Aviation From Collapse: Discover Of Nationwide Protest’.
In keeping with the round dated Wednesday, August 14, 2024, and collectively signed by Comrades Ocheme Aba, Frances Akinjole, Abdul Rasaq Saidu, Sikiru Waheed and Olayinka Abioye, the unions mentioned some vital essential security actions of the affected Aviation businesses had been grinding to a halt below the yoke of the deductions.
The unions are Nationwide Union of Air Transport Workers (NUATE), Air Transport Companies Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigeria (ATSSAN) and the Nationwide Affiliation of Plane Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE); Affiliation of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP), and Amalgamated Union of Public Company, Civil Companies Technical and Leisure Companies Workers (AUPCCSTRSE).
“All employees of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Nigerian Airspace Administration Company (NAMA); Nigerian Meteorological Company (NiMET); Nigerian Faculty of Aviation Know-how (NCAT) and Nigeria Security Investigation Bureau (NSIB), joined by solidarity of all aviation employees are hereby directed to embark on peaceable protests in any respect airports nationwide on Wednesday August 21, 2024 to demand the discontinuation of deduction of fifty% from the internally generated income of the businesses talked about above by exemption,” the round learn.
“All efforts on our half have didn’t impress it upon the Federal Authorities that every one the businesses are value restoration, and never revenue making organisations.
“As such they can’t survive on half of their incomes below any mannequin of administration, or every other guise in any respect.
“Data accessible to us signifies that some vital security essential actions of the businesses are grinding to a halt below the yoke of the deductions.
“It has, due to this fact, change into incumbent on us as commerce unions and employees in aviation to let the general public and the federal government bear in mind that we will bear no accountability within the sure occasion that the business turns into dysfunctional on account of monetary incapacity because of the deductions at supply,” the Unions said.
They, due to this fact, implored all state councils, girls commissions/committees, youth councils and branches of the unions nationwide to completely mobilise for, and guarantee full compliance and success of the peaceable protests.
