No more strike as aviaiton staff receive minimum wage, NiMet sets date to pay arrears

• Aviation unions person embarked connected aggregate onslaught actions implicit the past months, successful a amusement of solidarity for the NiMet staff
• They complained of the management's refusal to instrumentality and wage wage adjustments and different benefits dating backmost to 2019
• The galore negotiations and interventions person yet yielded results, and the changes person been implemented, with a acceptable day to wage up the arrears

Legit.ng writer Ruth Okwumbu-Imafidon has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful business reporting crossed integer and mainstream media.

There is anticipation that the recurring strikes successful Nigeria’s aviation assemblage person travel to an end, arsenic unit members of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency person yet received outgo of the caller minimum wage and wage adjustments.

This accommodation was implemented successful the May 2025 salaries and remunerations, aft respective ultimatums and onslaught actions implicit the past fewer months.

An authoritative of the Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals confirmed that the summation was implemented successful the May salary.

No much strikes successful Nigerian airports arsenic aviation unit yet get minimum wage. Photo credit: Pyrosky, Nurphoto
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NiMet workers embark connected onslaught implicit minimum wage

NiMet unit archetypal embarked connected a nationwide onslaught successful May 2024, citing the mediocre moving conditions and unpaid wage arrears dating backmost to 2019.

They besides embarked connected a onslaught successful February 2025, and different successful April 2025 aft a two-week ultimatum to NiMet to pay the wage arrears and different approved fiscal benefits.

Other aviation unions threw their value down NiMet and enactment up a solidarity onslaught successful enactment of their colleagues astatine NiMet.

The onslaught lasted agelong capable to ground formation operations for large airlines, including Air Peace, and eventually, the national authorities intervened.

FG intervenes successful aviation strike

The national Minister for Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, intervened aft the past onslaught action.

The PUNCH reports that Keyamo’s involution helped to velocity up the resolutions. An aviation idiosyncratic disclosed that Keyamo called the NiMet DG and directed him to guarantee that the wage increments were implemented successful May 2025.

He explained:

“The subsistence allowance was the archetypal outgo we got, and aft that subsistence allowance, we past got the implementation of the caller minimum wage.”

The Minister’s involution has besides sped up the adoption of the caller conditions of service, which person been signed by the NiMet DG and forwarded to the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission for approval.

After wage increment, NiMet unit await arrears

The unit noted that pursuing the negotiations, the arrears of the minimum wage payments and wage adjustments volition follow.

The authoritative stated:

“The N70,000 minimum wage and the 25 to 35% wage increment were implemented successful May, and the arrears were expected to travel by the extremity of June.. But unfortunately, I deliberation IPPIS is having a strategy upgrade. So, I deliberation the arrears volition beryllium coming successful by the extremity of July.”

He added that the percent summation varied crossed antithetic levels, with little unit cadres receiving a higher percent than higher staff.

The onslaught actions successful February and April 2025 grounded airdrome operations for days. Photo credit: Nurphoto
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NiMet suspends onslaught arsenic FG meets demands

Legit.ng reported that NiMet unions suspended their onslaught until May 13, 2025, aft Minister Festus Keyamo’s intervention.

The suspension allowed the national authorities clip to travel done connected promises, including resolving wage issues and implementing minimum wage adjustments.

Minister Keyamo reassured the unions, outlining steps to code their grievances, portion Permanent Secretary Dr Ibrahim Kana expressed optimism for a solution by the deadline.

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