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Aviation Workers To Protest 50% Revenue Deduction
Aviation workers have announced plans to stage a protest next week against the federal government’s policy of deducting 50 percent of internally generated revenue from all airports nationwide.
According to the workers, this deduction has severely impacted the operation of airport services, and their repeated efforts to engage the government on this issue have been unsuccessful.
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This was revealed in a statement issued on Wednesday, titled ‘Save Aviation from Collapse – Notice of Nationwide Protest.’
The statement was signed by the leadership of several unions, including the National Union of Air Transport Employees, the Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals, the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Services Employees, and the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria.
It stated: “All workers of the NCAA, FAAN, NAMA, NiMet, NCAT, and NSIB, with the support of all aviation workers, are directed to embark on peaceful protests at all airports nationwide on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, to demand an end to the 50% deduction from the internally generated revenue of these agencies.”
Aviation Workers Protest
“All efforts on our part have failed to impress it upon the Federal Government that all the Agencies are cost recovery and not profit-making organizations. As such they cannot survive on half of their incomes under any model of administration or any other guise whatsoever.
“Information available to us indicates that some important safety, critical activities of the Agencies are grinding to a halt under the yoke of the deductions. It has, therefore, become incumbent on us as trade
unions and workers in aviation to let the public and the government be aware that we shall bear no responsibility in the certain event that the industry becomes dysfunctional as a result of financial
incapacity due to the deductions at source.
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“All State Councils, Women Commissions/Committees, Youth Councils and Branches of our Unions nationwide are to fully mobilize for, and ensure full compliance and success of the peaceful protests.”
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