The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) of Educational and Associated Institution commenced nationwide industrial action to compel the federal government to address their grievances.
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The President of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, in an exclusive interview with Labour Editor, SOJI-EZE FAGBEMI, on the crisis in the university system, and how the government, defiant to all efforts made by the non-teaching unions – SSANU and NASU, will force the varsity workers to embark on an indefinite and comprehensive strike with effect from midnight on Friday 5 February. Excerpts:
You have already declared an indefinite and comprehensive total strike with effect from midnight on Friday 5. What is the justification for university workers to go on strike at this critical time?
I can tell you that all of us that are doing this are not doing it because we are happy but we are forced to do it. When you are leading an interest group like labour union, your major concern is about the welfare and well-being of your members. University system or university education is something that should not be toyed with. When a st
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FG, SSANU, NASU meeting ends in deadlock
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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
THE meeting between the Federal Government team and the non-teaching staff in the universities under the umbrella of Joint Action Committee, JAC, ended Tuesday without any resolution of the contentious issues.
Recall that JAC comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU had threatened to shut down the universities starting from February 5 if the government failed to address some of the concerns they raised.
Among the concerns include the issue of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, which the unions complained that they were having problems with since they migrated into the platform, the non-payment of arrears of minimum wage since April last year, the disparity in the sharing of the N40 billion Earned Allowances in which the Academic Staff Union of Universities, A
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The General Secretary of Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institutions (NASU), Comrade Peters Adeyemi, on Sunday, warned that the planned strike by the university workers will be comprehensive, total and indefinite when it takes off on Friday across public universities in the country.
Following their two-weeks noticed of strike given to the government on the industrial unrest, Comrade Adeyemi said there have been no reaction from the government.
The NASU general secretary and spokesperson of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of NASU and SSANU, therefore said mobilisation of their members across the country has recorded 90 per cent.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on December 23, 2020, “conditionally” suspended the strike it embarked on in March 2020 over the backlog