The National Union of Air Transport Employees and the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria have stated that they will embark on strike on January 2. They issues the threat in demand for tje promotion of their members in the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.
According to the unions, the NCAA had been taking them for granted over the welfare of their members.
The Chairman, Joint Action Committee, NCAA and Chairman of NUATE, NCAA branch, Lucky Izebhokun, said workers who would come out to protest on the said date because the system is discouraging to many of them.
He said, “We have had issues with people being transferred from the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency especially, because there is no promotion in NCAA, and you will see them bossing the people in NCAA, we have told the management that we can no longer accept that.
“We wrote and told the management and gave them three weeks; there will be serious issues. We are talking about promotion from level 14 to 15 and 16 that is the senior management cadre.”
Izebhokun stated that if the union failed to curtail the excesses of the agency, it would spread.
The Chairman of ATSSSAN, NCAA branch, Ayodele Sofolayan, spoke on the anxiety generated by the issue of promotion in the agency.
He added, “We have been on this issue for the past year and we have not seen any good result. We have given the management of the NCAA an ultimatum to either get this promotion done or we declare a state of emergency.
“We have discussed with a lot of people about what we are going to do; we have to force the management to conduct promotion examination without the organogram. The organogram is long overdue, so we cannot continue to wait.”
