Flight Operations Continue In PH Amid Aviation Workers’ Strike

Flights operations still continued at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, yesterday, even as the aviation workers union continues with their working strike.
The Tide reports that normal business and flights operations were still going on at the airport, in spite of the colouration of strike that normally would have put everything on a standstill.
Reacting to the strike in a chat with The Tide yesterday, the Chairman of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Port Harcourt International Airport (PHIA) Chapter, Mr Ovude Felix, said the strike was a national one.
Though he expressed dissatisfaction over the mode of the strike, saying it was supposed to be a total lockdown of offices to show that strike is ongoing, Felix said he was just obeying and carrying out instructions from the national body.
According to him, work is still going on in the offices to drive their claims home, but that their target is administration, which they want to address their matter.
“This strike is a working strike, and the order is from the national. Offices are not closed because of the strike, even though there was supposed to be a total lockdown of offices.
“I am taking orders from the national, to execute here in our branch, and I must comply with the directives of the national, and our target for this working strike is the administration, to make them heed to our demand”, he said.

By: Corlins Walter