AVIATION WORKERS PROTEST ANTI LABOUR CLAUSES IN AVIATION BILL

Aviation workers at the Ibadan Airport, on Monday joined their colleagues across the country to protest what they described as anti labour clauses in the new aviation bills, that awaits the assent of President Mohammadu Buhari.

The workers are staff of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) and National Union of Air Transport Employees(NUATE).

The protesters in their scores were seen with placards of various inscriptions and chanted solidarity songs while moving peacefully round the airport premises. 

Addressing the protesters, Ibadan ATSSSAN chairman, Olayade Oyewole, said the aviation workers were against the anti labour clauses inserted into the aviation bills recently ammended.

According to Oyewole, early this year, a committee was set up to look into the Act that established some parastatals in the aviation industry, where the union was fully represented and agreed on some of the clauses to be ammended.

Other union leaders, Gbenga Kayode; Binuyo Akinkunmi; Ibrahim Abimbola; Tunde Badmus and John Adebayo took turn to address the protesters.

The protest, however did not in anyway distrupt activities at the airport.