The United Labour
Congress, ULC, has suspended the ongoing strike it recently embarked upon.
The strike
has been suspended for one week.
The
president of congress, Joe Ajaero, made this pronouncement in an interaction
with journalists. The strike was suspended after a closed door meeting with the
federal government on Tuesday.
The meeting
was part of the steps by the government to resolve issues involved in the
ongoing strike which started on 15 September.
On his part,
the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige said the union will meet with the federal
government to resume negotiations on 26September.
It would be
recalled that PREMIUM TIMES reported how aviation unions affiliated to United
Labour Congress, ULC, on Monday shunned directives to shut down the Nigerian
airspace as the ULC began a nationwide strike.
The unions
are the Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals, ANAP; Aeronautical Information
Services Association of Nigeria, AISAN; and the National Association of Air
Traffic Engineers, NAAE.
The unions
had earlier at a meeting with the management of the Nigerian Airspace
Management Agency, NAMA, dissociated themselves from the strike.
NAN aviation
correspondents, who monitored the situation at both the international and
domestic wings of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, observed
normal flight operations by airlines.
The ULC
issued the strike notice following government’s failure to recognise the body
as a labour federation despite allegedly fulfilling all conditions stipulated
by law.
According to
it, the failure of the government to recognise the group violates the
constitution of Nigeria which guarantees freedom of association, and the Trade
Union Act.
It said that
government had thus excluded the congress, which has over 20 registered trade
unions, from its intended discussion with labour on the issue of national
minimum wage.
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