NiMet workers to begin indefinite strike Tuesday over unmet demands

• Published On: 23 April 2025 at 06:02

Workers at the Nigerian Meteorological Agency have declared an indefinite strike beginning today, April 22, 2025, due to unmet requests and frequent violations of the agency's collective bargaining agreement by its management.

In a letter, the Union of Air Transport Employees, the Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals, and the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical, and Recreational Services Employees accused NiMet management of failing to honour agreements to resolve ongoing remuneration disputes.

The letter continued, "As you are all aware, our unions have worked tirelessly over the last few years to ameliorate the immensely unfair remunerations issue that has placed great poverty and untold sorrow on NiMet employees. These attempts have largely failed to yield significant benefits.

The unions were disappointed when NiMet management failed to implement a partial agreement reached on January 28, 2025.

"You are also aware that the agreement between management and our unions, which was reached on January 28, 2025, to partially alleviate the aforementioned issue, has been mostly ignored.

"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," according to the letter.