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 Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes eastern Egypt A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook eastern Egypt early Monday, prompting authorities to activate response plans, although there were no immediate requests for emergency help. The tremors were felt across a wide area, waking residents across Cairo and reaching as far as El-Arish near Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip. The quake struck about 40 kilometres north of the city of Suez at 3:00 am (0000 GMT), according to Egypt's National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, which revised an earlier estimate of 5.2.

NUATE SUSPENDS STRIKE AGAINST ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES AFTER FG'S INTERVENTION.(PHOTO).



NUATE Suspends Strike Against Ethiopian Airlines After FG's Intervention



The Ethiopian Airlines branch of National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE has suspended its planned industrial action, following the intervention of the federal government.


The union had threatened to embark on strike over the refusal of the management of the Airline to implement the Collective Bargaining Agreement on the 13th-month salary, the non-promotion of workers, casual/contract staffing, and low remuneration.


A statement by the minister of State for labour and employment, Mohammed Dingyadi and signed by the ministry's spokesperson, Patience Onuobia, said at the end of a conciliation meeting convened by the Minister,  the  NUATE and Ethiopian Airlines in Nigeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU to meet within two weeks to discuss all issues in dispute and revert to the Ministry.

 

According to the agreement, a team comprising three representatives of the Union, officials of Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development and the Joint Aviation Trade Unions Forum shall attend the meeting.

 

According to the statement, the agreement also stipulates that the process will be supervised by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment and Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development.


It noted that the parties also agreed that there would be no work stoppage before the next meeting. 


The MoU was signed by the Ethiopian Airlines' Area Manager, Nigeria, Firiehiwot Mekonnen; National Vice President, NUATE,  Moses Unanaow; Deputy General Secretary, NUATE, Odinaka Igbokwe; representative of the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Abubakar  M. Sadiq; and Director, Trade Union Services and Industrial Relations of the Ministry of labour and employment, Amos Falonipe.


(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)

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