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Allow Slok Airlines Back in Business, NLC Tells FG Emmanuel Ugwu, Enugu The Enugu state council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has cried out over the continued withholding of the operating license of Slok Airlines, saying that it was threatening the existence of many families. Addressing newsmen at Enugu at the weekend, the state secretary of NLC, comrade David C. Ezugwu, said that labour has decided to wade into the matter because of the impending loss of more than 2, 000 jobs. He said that NLC was alerted of the looming job loss by the state chapter of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), which received a letter from Slok management indicating that the Airline could no longer continue to pay its staff after four months of business closure. The NLC scribe explained that labour was particularly concerned about the plight of workers caught up in the high wire politics that led to the withdrawal of Slok license. Said he: "NLC as a body will not associate itself with inadequacies but we're concerned that the continued withholding of the license is threatening the job of our members." Ezugwu further explained that labour was not involved in the politics that led to the clipping of Slok wings by the federal government but stressed that the welfare of workers remained paramount because "as long as the rift continues the workers would continue to suffer." "The workers are at risk, their dependants are at risk, and their extended families are at risk also," the NLC scribe asserted. He noted that if Slok Airlines had made mistakes it should have corrected itself in the past four months and therefore should be allowed to start flying once again. "The Federal Ministry of Aviation should as a matter of urgency and public importance review its stand on the suspension (of Slok Airline)," Ezugwu said. Labour also called on President Obasanjo to intervene in the matter "to save the jobs of thousands of Nigerian workers engaged by the airline by ensuring the lifting of the suspension of the operating license of Slok Airline." The affected workers had prior to the briefing protested the continued closure of their source of livelihood with placards with various inscriptions. Some of them read: "FG save more than 2000 jobs, release Slok Airline; "Obasanjo release Slok Airline, we are suffering so much." Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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