Workers of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency have said they will commence indefinite strike action starting today, April 22, 2025 as a result of unmet demands and allegedly repeated breaches of a collective bargaining agreement by the agency’s management.
In a letter, the Union of Air Transport Employees, the Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals, and the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical, and Recreational Services Employees, accused NiMet management of failing to honour agreements aimed at resolving prolonged remuneration issues.
The letter read, “As you are all aware, our unions have strived strenuously over the past few years to alleviate the exceedingly unjust remunerations conundrum that has visited extreme poverty and consequent untold hardship on NiMet workers. These efforts have been largely without substantial results.”
The unions expressed disappointment over management’s failure to implement a partial agreement reached on January 28, 2025.
“You are equally aware that the agreement between the management and our unions since 28th January 2025 towards partial amelioration of the above-stated condition has been honored largely only in the breach.
“In the light of management’s inability to address our given grave concerns, and being that we can no longer continue to cope with present hardships (given the huge disparity in remunerations with our peers), and especially as the ultimatum given to the Management has expired, we have no choice than to resume the suspended strike,” the workers said in the letter.
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