The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has put its members on red alert in preparation to join the call to public demonstrations against the Federal Government, if the prolonged strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), is not resolved immediately.
In a statement titled: OUR CHILDREN ARE ENTITLED TO QUALITATIVE UNDISRUPTED TERTIARY EDUCATION and signed by its General Secretary, Ocheme, Aba, NUATE noted that the continuing strike by ASUU in public Universities has done incalculable and irreversible damage to the educational trajectory of Nigerian children, especially those from the poor stock who cannot afford the high cost of private education.
The Aviation union added, “This situation is worsened by the laiz-a-fez attitude the Federal Government has adopted towards resolving the imbroglio brought about in the first place by Government’s failure to play its part in the agreement with ASUU.”
NUATE which lamented the situation as deeply worrying, in solidarity, said that it is completely in supports of the position of the National Executive Council of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to the effect that Government must immediately resolve the prolonged ASUU strike.
“It is totally unacceptable to allow the education of the children of poor workers, and other poor citizens, to be so badly truncated as to become worthless,” the union reasoned.
“As such, NUATE totally supports the public demonstrations ordered by NLC to call on the Federal Government to urgently resolve the imbroglio. NUATE further affirms that the union stands ready to embark on industrial action in solidarity with ASUU, should the Federal Government fail to heed the call to duty over this matter,” NUATE threatens.
It added, “Accordingly, aviation workers nationwide are hereby notified to remain at alert for commencement of solidarity industrial action that may be directed by the NLC and its affiliates
