{"id":99164,"date":"2022-09-12T09:36:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T08:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99164"},"modified":"2022-09-12T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T08:36:02","slug":"flights-disruption-looms-as-aviation-workers-commence-nationwide-protest-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/flights-disruption-looms-as-aviation-workers-commence-nationwide-protest-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights Disruption Looms As Aviation Workers Commence Nationwide Protest Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aviation workers under the auspices of the National Union of Air Transport Employees; Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria; Association of Nigerian Association Professionals; Amalgamated Unions of Public Corporations; Civil Service Technical &amp; Recreational Services Employees, and the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, have declared nationwide protest to hold today, Monday, September 12, 2022.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was contained in a joint statement issued by the unions on Sunday and signed by the general secretaries of the unions,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement was signed by Ochema Aba (NUATE), Francis Akinjole (ATSSSAN), Abdul Razaq Saidu (ANAP), Sikiru Waheed (AUPCTRE), and Umoh Ofonime (NAAPE).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unions directed their members to \u201cembark on peaceful rallies\/public demonstrations at all airports in Nigeria to demand the expunging of obnoxious Essential Services clauses from the Bills\/Acts of the aviation agencies.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement directed the unions to make internal arrangements to ensure full compliance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the statement, they listed the agencies to include the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology and the Accident Investigation Bureau.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation workers under the auspices of the National Union of Air Transport Employees; Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria; Association of Nigerian Association Professionals; Amalgamated Unions of Public&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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