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The role of a labor union is to ensure that the balance is not tipped in favor of the employer when employees do not receive wages and benefits commensurate with their contribution.—William Burrus
Comrades,
We want you all to assist and join in the action from tomorrow 5th Dec 2014 until we are ALL PAID send a
clear message to our employers. This is a real chance to bring the airline into negotiations and stem the serious erosion
of our pay dates in recent months.
The time has come to put an end to the unjust treatment of ALL PILOTS at ARIK AIR
PILOTS fly the PLANES and make the MONEY for the airline.
NO PILOTS there will be NO AIRLINE hence NO MONEY.
The driving force to put an end the this blatant "up yours, pilots" ,attitude the airlines managers and owners have towards us, is now in the beginning stages.
It is time to put an end to the continued denial of our basic rights to receive salaries promptly at the end of the month. Even though we are on the lowest pay grades for this level of flying in Nigeria we continue to put up with this atrocity.
Our pay and conditions are unethical, which questions our right to fair compensation for our vital work.
WE NEED A PAY INCREASE AND BETTER CONDITIONS (laundry,food, accommodation,transport, accounts, sim money, 10%.... and the list goes on.
During campaigns like these, standing up for your rights as an individual makes you the target of attacks by management, but if we stand together they CANNOT do this.
Stop the bull**** talking and complaining around the dinner tables, positive changes for pilots will take place, support the industrial action for LATE PAYMENT OF SALARIES.
We are therefore actively encourage you to take part in the industrial action from Friday 5th DEC 2014
UNTIL WE ARE ALL PAID.
In the short term this will indeed affect our company, but the long term benefits are overwhelmingly more significant, both for the company and for us.