Nigeria's National Association of Aircraft Engineers, or NAAE, have threatened to walk off the job, which would close Nigeria's airspace until they returned to work. The threatened strike was sparked by claims by the NAAE of disparities in the "increment of allowances of air traffic controllers." The president of the association, Bulus Bodam, said that professions in the same working environment should be treated equally. The NAAE has given the government notice that it will withdraw its service of providing critical instruments such as navigation and radar equipment. This threat is being taken seriously by the government's aviation department, and if left unresolved, the impending strike will remove necessary, if inefficient and substandard, equipment for airtravel and will ground all Nigerian flights.This article demonstrates the ability of workers and unions to pressure the government to succumb to their demands. The ability of these pressures from the bottom to actually reach the government, while inconvienient for many, are a sign that some power may be shifting to ordinary people who have found a way to make their demands heard.
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