Airlines, oil rigs, others to suffer forecast services as workers downtool

Workers in the NigeriaMeteorological Agency (NIMET), affiliated to the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Service Employees (AUPCTRSE), on Monday, threatened to withdraw their weather forecast services to airlines, ships, oil rigs, agricultural enterprises and other public and corporate agencies in the next one week over 15 months unpaid relativity salary increase.AUPCTRSE's Acting General Secretary, Comrade Phillip Agbonkonkon, made the declaration in lagos while briefing newsmen on the volatile industrial climate in NIMET, which, if not positively resolved within the next few days, would lead to indefinite strike.He said: 'NIMET workers are set to withdraw their weather forecast services to airlines, ships, oil rigs, agricultural enterprises and other public and corporate agencies in the next one week over 15 months unpaid relativity salary increase.'The principal issue in dispute between the union and the Federal Governmengt is the non-implementation of the relativity salary increase circular in the core civil service and other sub-sector of the public service, parastatals that are funded from the treasury.'According to Agbonkonkon, virtually all parastatals had had the circular implemented for them before the end of 2010 and effective from July 1, 2010.'And every effort made since 2010 to date in terms of meetings with the relevant government agencies and correspondences to the authorities, including the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, yielded no result but have manifested ambivalence and apparent indifference on the part of the government,' he said.
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