Union Kicks Against Anti-Labour Practice In Aviation Sector

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    Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) has kicked against the anti-labour practices adopted by some concessionaire companies in the aviation industry.
In a statement issued after the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Abeokuta on Thursday, made available to The Tide said the union executives are prepared to lead the struggles to stop the excesses of these concessionaire companies out to enslave Nigerians and stop foreign training for the workers.
The union statement jointly signed, but its national president and deputy general secretary respectively, Comrade Benjamin Okewu and Captain Taiogu, said the union expressed worry that workers in the aviation sector have become slave drivers in the hands of the concessionaire companies through exploitation and various obnoxious anti-labour practices.
The union, therefore, warned all agencies in the aviation sector to respect and implement all signed agreement on workers welfare or face unpleasant consequences in the hands of the union members.
The union NEC condemned in totality the ban placed on foreign training of its members by the Federal Government through the Head of service of the federation, stressing that such policy portends danger to a healthy and sound operation in the aviation sector.
The union lamented that the absence of foreign training for workers in the sector will spell doom for the industry as the sector was highly technical, dynamic and ever changing one with basic requirements for regular training and retraining of the union members in order to meet global standards.

Philip Okparaji