Labour to picket airlines over refusal to unionise

NUATE said it is against labour law for some airlines to make employment conditioned upon not joining a trade union while those who threaten workers with sack if they join the unions are doing great violence to Nigerian laws.

“We have been on this for the past five years. We have reported to the Ministers of labour and that of aviation. All of them have been promising us that something will be done but you can’t be following up a project for five years, it means that they want to do anything.” Also, NUATE General Secretary, Comrade Ocheme Aba affirmed that it will be in the good interest of airlines and organisations in the aviation sector to allow their workers to join the labour unions affirming that no airline that allowed their staff to join trade unions have gone under.

“But those airlines that folded up are the ones that didn’t have any organised structure, no organised maintenance structure, no workforce structure, no director of administration, everything is one person in one office and that is why many of these people do not want unions because they want to do things as they like and we must also understand that a worker who does not have a negotiated terms of employment is just a paid slave.

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