By DANIEL ETEGHE

Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSSAN, Sunday issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, over workers’ conditions of service and other unresolved labour issues.

The union vowed that failure by the management of FAAN to address issues in dispute after the expiration of the ultimatum, FAAN would face industrial unrest.

In a petition by its Secretary General, Olayinka Abioye, to the Managing Director of FAAN, Mr. George Ureisi, and copied Ministry of Labour and Productivity and Ministry of Aviation, the union claimed that FAAN had failed to meet its obligations to workers on  welfare.

According to the petition dated May 22, the union could no “longer fold its arms and allow FAAN to perpetually carry out anti-worker policies, fragrant de-motivation and violations of the staff’s rights and privileges to maximum benefits in career growth, promotions, recognitions of exemplary conduct and performance with cognate experience.”

ATSSSAN argued that it issued the ultimatum to FAAN to enable the agency address outstanding promotions of some personnel since 2010 without receiving letters of promotion, lamenting that a situation where those who served the industry meritoriously over the years would have their career progression dislocated over political patronage was not favourable to the workers.

It condemned what it called most retrogressive compensation system where newly recruited staff were placed in managerial position without the required skills, competences and experiences in public service, breaching and truncating extant rules of public service rules and FAAN’s conditions of service.