A large number of travellers have been left stranded after members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) interrupted activities at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Monday morning.
This follows the order of the union to embark on strike over the Federal Government’s refusal to raise the proposed minimum wage from N60,000.
Earlier, aviation workers vowed to join the strike which was declared by the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
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Giving the reason for joining the strike, the Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals, (ANAP) in a letter signed by Abudul Rasaq Saidu, secretary general of the association stated that they are aware of the complaints and hardship being faced by all working-class people “but despite the masses outcry the federal government did not reason to do the needful to pay acceptable wages.”
However, on Monday morning, a video posted online by one Akin Olaiya showed members of the unions demonstrating in front of the gate of the airport.
The members, who were chanting a solidarity song denied travellers access to the airport.
They demanded for the FG to immediately honour the requests of the Labour unions, stressing that “if they could buy cars worth millions of naira for senators, they should be able to pay a N600,000 minimum wage”.
