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SSANU, NASU, NAAT JOIN ASUU, DECLARE INDEFINITE STRIKE

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The
Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities
(SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and the National
Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has stated that the unions will
begin a “total and comprehensive indefinite” strike from Monday, joining their academic
colleagues.

The
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had earlier begun an indefinite
strike on August 13 but will resume negotiation with the delegation of the
federal government on Thursday.
But
at a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, the Committee revealed
that strike which is due to the federal government’s alleged failure to fulfil
a 2009 agreement with the unions will
begin on Monday, September 11.
The
Chairman of JAC who is also the National President of SSANU, Samson Ugwoke,
said the workers will not provide even skeletal services during the strike.
The
unions said they were demanding payment of earned allowance to their members,
review of governance system in universities, improved funding of universities
in line with UNESCO recommendations and provision of infrastructure in the
universities.
They
are also asking for payment of salary shortfalls being owed, implementation of
the National Industrial Court judgement on university staff schools,
registration of Nigerian Universities Pension Management Company, NUPEMCO, and
implementation of CONTISS 14 and 15 for technologists.
The unions
revealed that they had given the federal government a 35-day notice before they
decided to commence the strike on Monday stressing that their
decision to go on strike was not related to the ongoing action by their
academic staff colleagues.
“Concessions
shall not be granted while all our members are to stay at home till further
notice, unless as directed by JAC through their respective presidents,” Mr.
Ugwoke said.
“It
is not about releasing money, but let it be used for the purpose it was
released for, whether it is government fund or internal generated revenue.
Government knows those that control funds in the university.
“In
2015, the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission, acting on behalf of
the federal government, directed heads of institutions and agencies to stop the
inclusion of workers in the university staff school from the payrolls of their
institutions and based on the directive, over 2000 of our members were
technically retrenched.
“Until
we embarked on the five days warning strike in January, the federal government
never called us for dialogue.
“If
an agreement was signed in 2009 and now in 2017 we are still demanding for the
implementation of such agreement, does it not show that we have been
exceedingly patient?
“Our
Charter of Demands has been with the government before ASUU went on strike.”

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