As the 14 days ultimatum given to the aviation agencies to remove contentious sections in the two newly signed bill by President Muhammadu Buhari ends on Monday, the National Union of Air Transport, NUATE, says the union may consider going on strike soon if no convincing response from them.
Speaking to ait.live through a telephone, the general-secretary, Ocheme Aba explains that the aviation Union will meet on Wednesday to decide.
NUATE accused the ministry of aviation and its agencies of smuggling in the anti-union workers clauses in the bill despite the rejection by the union workers during the National assembly joint committee’s public hearing before the president appended his signature on the documents.
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Few months back, President Muhammadu Buhari had signed the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, and the Nigerian Meterological Agency, NiMET, bills into law out of the six aviation bills pending before his table as the Controversial sections, 67 sub-section 1 and 2 page 40 of the 2006 acts were said to have been included in all the documents.
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
