PHOTOS: Angry Nigerian Pilots, Engineers Ground Bristow Airlines, Protest Being used as Cheap Labour

Nigerian aircraft pilots under the umbrella of National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineer, NAAPE, an affiliate of Trade Union Congress, TUC, as early as 6:30am stormed Bristow Helicopters and shut down all its offices in Port Harcourt thereby leaving all passengers of Bristow Helicopters in Port
Harcourt, Rivers State, stranded.

NAAPE, Isaac Balami, led the protesters along side national officials and the state Chairman of TUC. They were protesting the pay disparity for its local and expatriates pilots as well as the highly inimical absence of valid conditions of service.

According to Balami “For the past ten years our pilots and engineers working with Bristow Helicopters have suffered untold hardship due to discriminatory and slavish policies of the management of Bristow Helicopters. They treat them like they are in a slave camp. You will see a co-pilot who just has 200hrs experience from UK, South Africa and Canada earning far more than their Nigerian counterparts who have been working for years".