The Ethiopian Airlines branch of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has cancelled its planned industrial action, following mediation by the federal government. The union had threatened to embark on strike over the refusal of the management of the Airline to implement the Collective Bargaining Agreement on the 13th-month salary, the non-promotion of workers, […]
BY CHUKWUEMEKE IWELUNMO A contender for the post of the National president of the National Union Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Comrade Lanre Popoola says, he will build and restore worker’s confidence by embarking on aggressive enrollment of workers back to the union. Speaking with aviation journalists on his bid to contest for the President of […]
.As ATSSSAN insists on payment of relocation allowances The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has written to the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika on the directive asking aviation agencies to relocate to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) within 45 days saying the cost implication was not only high but not a component […]
The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) says the adverse effects of the current coronavirus across the world is worse than the September 9/11 in the United States The union at the weekend titled virus and labour issues in aviation, a call for dialogue signed its national president Comrade Ben Nnabue called for adequate […]
Minister of State Aviation Hadi Sirika, heads of aviation agencies and over four hundred delegates will converge on Asaba, Delta state capital for the national delegates conference of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE). According to the general secretary of NUATE, Comrade Olayinka Abioye, the 10th quardrennial national delegates conference with its theme, […]
The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) have continued to lay siege at the Newrest ASL, the in-flight catering service in the Nigeria aviation industry over the refusal of the management to allow the workers to join the unions of their choice. NUATE has since Monday grounded the operations of Newrest ASL, which has […]
Aviation workers unions under the auspices of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, (NUATE) , the Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria, (ATSSSAN) and the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, (NAAPE) Thursday protested at the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, (FAAN) at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos […]
Nigerian workers have been advised to educate and organise themselves, as well as give women greater roles in unionism, so that they could be relevant in the emerging labour market. The advice was given, on Thursdaty, by Comrade Abiodun Aremu, at the first annual Pre-May Day Seminar organised by the leaders of the National Union […]
The Federal Government has withdrawn the letter of appointment of the Director of Finance in the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria,(FAAN) Mr. Tochukwu Bede Uchendu. In a letter dated April 27, 2015, and signed by A. A. Tsafe, Director,Human Resource Management, for the Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka,read “We regretfully inform you that the letter […]
One-time Secretary General of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and a former member of the Civil Society Representative (Aviation) in MTSS, Comrade Razaq Saidu, has said that the rate of expatriate quota abuse is getting worse in the nation’s aviation sector. According to Saidu, the situation is more deplorable among operators of private […]
The Assistant General Secretary of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Comrade Olayinka Abioye has said that increasing the number of pilots in the cockpit of aircraft is not the solution to the Germanwings experience. Recalled that a co- pilot of the Germanwings aircraft alleged locked out his pilot when he went to use […]