NAMA , Labour Union Partner to Enthrone Industry Harmony

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has been deliberating with labour unions in the aviation to come to a compromise whereby labour would fully exhaust dialogue before engaging in industry action.

It is expected that when this is achieved, it would drastically reduce the operational hiccups caused by incessant picketing and strike in the industry.

In pursuit of this objective, NAMA management recently held an engagement forum with the Joint Aviation Trade Unions that include National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), National Association of Air Traffic Controllers (NATCA), National Association of Aeronautical Engineers (NAAE), Aeronatical Information Management Association of Nigeria (AIMA), National Aeronautical Communication Association of Nigeria (NACAN), and Almagamated Union of Public Corporation Civil Service Technical and Recerational Services Employees ( ACUPTRE).

The forum, which held at the corporate headquarters of the airspace agency provided an opportunity for the airspace agency team, led by Captain Fola Akinkuotu to engage the leadership of aviation unions on how to forestall industrial unrest and examine issues bordering on non conclusive conditions of service, poor salaries as a result of non implementation of the National Wages and Salaries Commission approval so that NAMA would operate same salary structure with Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

Led by the National President of NUATE, Comrade Mohammed Dauda Safiyanu , the meeting offered opportunity for NAMA management to resolve mistrust that has existed in the agency due to animosities occasioned by rivalry between different directorates an departments.