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The two unions representing staff at the University of the South Pacific are calling on the Fiji Government to honour the decisions of their parliament and pay the outstanding subsidy due to the university.
Apr 22, 2021 12:44:57 PM All trade unions elections which were scheduled to be held next month has been postponed to a later date. The Fiji Nursing Association, Fiji Sugar Clerks Association and University of the South Pacific Staff Union have all been deferred to a later date. Supervisor of Election Mohammed Saneem said the elections will resume until the restrictions imposed by the Ministry of Health are revised to allow the same. Saneem in a statement said they will be contacting individual trade union representatives to work out the details of the new election dates. “All three union elections were scheduled to take place in May but due to the three confirmed community coronavirus transmission cases, it has been deferred to a later date,” he said.
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FWCC coordinator Shamima Ali and PM Voreqe Bainimarama. Picture: FT FILE
Hullo readers.
In The Fiji Times edition of Friday, February 19, 2021, our coverage of the situation at the University of the South Pacific continues, and today you will read about the Prime Minister’s public comment calling for the resignation of an award-winning USP academic who is also the wife of an Opposition MP.
The Prime Minister is touring affected areas, particularly schools, in the Northern Division that were affected by the recent natural disasters.
And while in the Northern Division, we bring you reports of the challenges – post-disaster – that northerners continue to experience.
Felix Chaudhary
18 February, 2021, 6:15 pm
Staff members of the University of the South Pacific during a prayer session. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA.
THE Fijian Government acted like a “thief in the night” in the manner in which it deported University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife Sandra Price.
This, according to a joint statement issued by the Association of the University of the South Pacific and the University of the South Pacific Staff Union on Tuesday following a meeting of the USP Council.
“Good governance has underpinned the unions, students and staff approach to all matters relating to the university and the vice-chancellor and has taken guidance from the supreme governing body of the USP – its council,” the unions’ statement said.