By Itohan Abara-Laserian
The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) on Monday said it would soon picket offices of airlines across the country that had disallowed their staff from joining trade unions.
Mr Ben Nnabue, the National President of NUATE made the disclosure during the National Campaign for the Unionisation of Private Domestic Airlines in Nigeria on Monday in Lagos.
Nnabue told the workers that the union had received the backing of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) based in London on unionisation.
According to him, it is against labour law for some airlines to make employment conditioned upon not joining a trade union,
He said that those who threatened workers with sack if they joined unions were acting contrary to Nigerian laws.
Nnabue recalled that participants at the last global labour unions conference held in Singapore observed that a lot of organisations were not unionised.
He said that this was what informed the mandate to ensure…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
