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Aviation unions suspend industrial action against Caverton Helicopters.

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Aviation trade unions have suspended their industrial action against Caverton Helicopters over alleged anti-labour practices.

 

Mr Olayinka Abioye, General Secretary, the National Union of Air Transport Employees, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos.

 

Abioye said the unions had suspended the action following an invitation by the airline’s management to them to come for a meeting.

 

He said: “Now we are preparing for a meeting with the management and we are looking forward to an amicable resolution of the issues on ground.


“Our main demand is the conclusion of the ongoing discussion on salary increment and conditions of service.

 

“When we complete that, we will now go to the next one which is the management’s plan to disengage certain numbers of staff.

 

“We are hoping that we will be able to apply the conditions of service which we would have signed as the benchmark to determine the conditions on which those affected are to go, if they have to go.”

 

NAN reports that the NUATE and the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria had on Thursday picketed the airline’s premises at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Union Threatens To Ground Aviation Company Over Sack Of 50 Nigerians

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The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) on Wednesday threatened to ground the operations of Caverton Helicopters over alleged lack of due process in the sacking of 50 Nigerian workers in the company.

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The union gave the warning in a letter addressed to the airline’s Chief Executive Officer.

 

The letter was signed by the union’s General-Secretary, Mr Olayinka Abioye and made available to aviation correspondents in Ikeja.

 

The letter said that Abioye accused the airline’s management of sacking the workers without following due process.
It described the company’s action as illegal.

 

The letter said that the management of the company erred in deducting workers salaries without consideration for rules, logic and applicable standards.

 

The letter said that the union queried the non-uniformity in deductions of workers’ salaries, appealing to the management to address the irregularities on or before the end of November.

 

“All deductions made from staff since September without recourse to extant financial regulations of the Federal Republic of Nigeria must be reinstated to the workers,’’ it said.

 

The letter stressed that the union would not be held responsible for the consequences that might arise over the failure of the management to rectify the shortcomings.

 

(NAN)