Arik Air Workers Embark on nationwide Strike

Arik Air workers and all unions on Monday embarked on a protest with regards to the airline's inability to pay its workers their earned 7 months salaries and other allowances. This occurred in all her branches nationwide.

Unions including: The National Union of Air Transport Employees, (NUATE), the Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria, (ATSSSAN), and the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, (NAAPE).

Responding to the protest, unions managing the Arik Air operations agreed to call off the strike with the intervention of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
The agreed yesterday, to pay off all the earned salaries of their workers including November and December in order to resume its full operations in no distant time.

Meanwhile the protest/strike pissed off many of their customers all over the country because it prevented them from their normal days activities and business. Some of their patronizers made comments like "I will never board flights from Arik Air Airlines, they ruined my business plans and day".

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