Aviation staff union has once more directed all workers of aviation businesses to embark on nationwide protest from September 18th over the continued deduction of fifty % of its Internally Generated Income (IGR).
The union gave the directive in a joint assertion signed by the Nationwide Union of Transport Workers (NUATE), Affiliation of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP), Nationwide Affiliation of Plane Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) Amalgamated Union of Public Companies Technical and Leisure Companies Worker (AUCPTRE) and Air Transport Companies and Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigeria (ATSSSAN)
The union in a discover of Nationwide protest titled ‘save Aviation from collapse’ directed all staff of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Nigeria Airspace Administration Company(NAMA), Nigeria Faculty of Aviation Expertise (NCAT) Nigeria Security Investigation Bureau (NSIB) and Nigeria Meteorology Company NIMET) to start peaceable protest in any respect airports nationwide on Thursday the 18th September.
The peaceable protest is to demand the discontinuation of the deduction of fifty % from IGR from aviation businesses by means of an exemption.
The union had deliberate to embark on a day protest on August 21, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Improvement Festus Keyamo appealed for endurance, assuring that he would work out modalities on how the deductions can be diminished to twenty %.
Nonetheless, the union within the assertion, acknowledged that the ultimatum given to the Minister of Aviation on the identical has expired for the reason that finish of August 2024.
They directed that each one state councils, ladies commissions/committees, youth Councils, and Branches of our Unions nationwide absolutely mobilize and guarantee full compliance and success of the peaceable protests.
“Additional actions shall be determined and communicated within the occasions of the protest failing to attain a desired consequence.”
