“At the same time, the management of NAMA has informed its in-house unions about its inability to continue to pay normal salaries.” Nigeria Avaition Strike
The threat comes ahead of the planned resumption of domestic flights in five airports across geopolitical zones on June 21.
Worst-hit is FAAN, which has about 12,000 workers, 22 airports and at least N4billion monthly overhead cost. The FAAN’s management earlier moved to pay 50 per cent salary for May. Protests by workers’ unions forced FAAN to rescind the decision for the month of May, though gave no guarantee for subsequent payments should the fortunes of the industry fail to improve.
They acknowledged that it took efforts on the part of the management of FAAN to pay salaries for the month of May. The unions stated that while the adverse socio-economic situation imposed by the COVID-19 was an act of God, there could be little debate that workers had been dealt a larger portion of the burden to bear due to no fault of theirs.
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