The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO) staff
members have suspended their industrial action embarked on in a bid to demand
for salary increases.
The aviation workers, under the aegis of the national union
of air transport employees (NUATE) and air transport services senior staff
association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), said the management of NAHCO had commenced
negotiations with its workers.
Frances Akinjole, deputy general secretary, ATSSSAN,
disclosed this to journalists on Monday.
“It has been suspended, and they have agreed to commence
negotiation on the salary issue with us,” Akinjole said, giving updates on the
strike.
Flights at the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport were disrupted earlier today when the NAHCO staff members
walked out of the international airport.
Several passengers were
stranded at the international airport, moving about helplessly with their
luggage.
The development grounded both inbound and outbound flight
schedules.
Prior to the suspension, the
management of NAHCO had held an emergency meeting to work out a payment plan
for the striking staff members.
The company later confirmed that it was engaging with the
striking aviation unions to end the flight disruptions experienced by
passengers.
In a statement, Olusola Obabori, group executive director,
NAHCO, expressed “regret [for] all the inconveniences”.
He said some of its clients were being put through a
difficult situation by the “insistence of some staff to embark on a strike
action despite a subsisting order of court which restrained them from doing
so”.
Obabori added that the company was already engaging the
unions and other stakeholders and was positive the situation would be resolved
within hours.
“We understand the power of negotiation. The company which
has arguably the best welfare package among the local players in the aviation
industry will do all that is absolutely necessary to make its workforce happy
even as it delights its customers,” he said.
“This situation would be resolved speedily as it is
detrimental to the staff, the company and its esteemed clients.”
Last week, NUATE and ATSSSAN gave a five-day notice of
strike to NAHCO management citing slow progress in negotiation for salary
review.
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