Aviation
unions will shut down the operations of Arik Air on Thursday, according to
Premium Times.
The
unions, which include the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Air
Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the National
Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, said they would shut down Arik
air following the failure of the airline’s management to reinstate its sacked
members.
The Asset Management
Corporation of Nigeria had on February 9 taken over Arik air as a result of the
airline’s bad debt to the company and other creditors.
AMCON thereafter
appointed Roy Ilegbodu as manager of the airline.
But Olayinka Abioye,
General Secretary, NUATE, while speaking on Wednesday in Lagos, accused the new
management of intolerance to unionism.
Mr. Abioye alleged that
the new management, through a recent circular, warned the workers not to join
the unions in the industry and had refused to address all the pending issues
affecting the workers.
“Among the issues are
the review of conditions of service, remittance of necessary union deductions
to their respective unions and the non-reinstatement of sacked union leaders in
the airline,’’ Mr. Abioye said.
The News Agency of
Nigeria, NAN, reports that the union leader recalled that the unions had in
December 2016 had issues with the then management of the airline, which led to
the shutdown of Arik’s operations for a day, before the intervention of the
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA.
“Certain
commitments were arrived at from the meeting and we were supposed to have a
feedback early this year,” Mr. Abioye said.
“When we got there, the
former Arik Air management was not in sight and we later learnt that the AMCON
management has taken over the airline.
“As expected from
responsible union bodies, we wrote a letter to the new management seeking for a
meeting with them, which was approved. We got to that meeting and the airline’s
Receiver Manager, acted in an ‘uncivilised’ manner.
“He walked out the
leaders of the three unions and asked his bodyguards to send us out,” he said.
He, however, noted that
contrary to expectation, a circular was issued by the carrier’s vice president,
human resources, to the effect that Arik workers should shun unionism.
The unions, therefore,
have resolved to shut down the airline Thursday, Mr. Abioye said.
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