Imo Airport: NLC, TUC pickets Air Peace, passengers stranded
The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, are at the moment picketing Air Peace offices at the domestic terminal of the Lagos Airport, grounding operations over the airline’s continued defiance of the embargo on Imo Airport.
The two labour groups are staging what they claim to be an escalating operation against the Imo State Government over the alleged disruption of the May Day celebrations in Owerri, Imo State last Monday.
The two labour unions had accused the Governor Hope Uzodimma administration of collaborating to forge a factionalisation of the labour movement in the state.
The NLC and the TUC during the May Day celebrations vowed to bring pressure on the Imo State government to reverse its actions.
The first target of their action is to cut off the state from air travels.
The Labour activists entered the Lagos airport on Wednesday and disrupted the activities of the Air Peace counters at the airport.
They have also pledged to deny the airline supply of aviation fuel in the escalating face off.
It was gathered that the NLC and the TUC have also carried out their threat to petition the Imo State government to the International Labour Organisation besides the action against grounding Air Peace operations in Lagos.
