Strike: Normal activities continue at Abuja airport
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by sumaila ogbaje3 according to him what the labour is fighting for is for the benefit of all workers which is why every worker must be part of this agitation. nan1 nan reports that normal flight operations are smoothly ongoing at both the arrival and departure sections of the airports1 nan also observed that all major airlines were booking and boarding passengers with airport staff fully on ground for normal services1 mr abdulahi saroke station manager for max air told nan the strike had not affected flight operations in all airports adding that he had received flights from lagos and kano and boarded passengers to those airports1 however saroke said he had heard the news that airports could be shut anytime to join the strike1 in spite of the total shutdown proposed by the organised labour unions in the ongoing nationwide strike normal activities continued on thursday at the nnamdi azikiwe international airport abuja the news agency of nigeria nan reports1 akinjole explained that the delegates conference at which a new leadership of the national union of air transpirt employees nuate would be elected had been planned before the decision by the labour unions to embark on a nationwide strike1 he said the reason why the strike had yet to be enforced at the airports was because all aviation union leaders were out of their stations1 according to him aviation unions are strongly with the nlc on the strike even though we are not on ground to enforce it today1 we are currently in asaba for nuates national delegates conference for today and tomorrow and we shall enforce the compliance in aviation sector as soon as we finish from here he said1 a staff of abuja airport who pleaded anonymity said their various unions had not mobilised them to join the strike. he said a lot of airport workers were willing to support the strike to press home the demands for a new minimum wage in the country.1 when contacted mr francis akinjole general secretary air transport senior staff association of nigeria atssan said that all aviation unions in the country were currently attending their national delegates conference at asaba delta1