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Unlabelled ASUP resumes strike on Friday

ASUP resumes strike on Friday

CuteNaija - Monday, September 30, 2013


The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics is to resume its suspended strike on Friday following the inability of the Federal Government to resolve outstanding issues with the union.

ASUP Chairman, Mr. Clement Chirman, told newsmen in Jos on Sunday that “the frustrating inertia of the Federal Government to convincingly fulfil any part of the agreement reached with the union before the suspension of the earlier strike on July 17, 2013 shows that government is not serious.”

Chirman said that the ASUP’s National Executive Council after its 75th meeting at the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State, resolved that the strike would be total and indefinite until the government showed commitment to honouring the agreement with the union.

He expressed dismay at government penchant for breaking agreement, adding that “since the union suspended its earlier strike in July, government has shown no commitment to fulfilling any of the promises it made to the union.”

The union in its communiqué after the meeting in Bida decried “the anti-labour stance of the National Assembly as exemplified by the recently proposed removal of minimum wage from the exclusive legislative list of the constitution to the concurrent list, as well as the proposed legislation against declaration of industrial strike by unions in the tertiary sector.”
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4 comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2013 at 8:09 AM

    ASUP should be realistic in their demand. Engaging in strike action is not the answer to the issues at stake.

    ASUP leadership should engage with the government with a view to reach a realistic and reasonable resolution. Strike does not benefit anybody in the long run.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2013 at 9:47 AM

    nonsense. A strike was called off in July and now to be resumed in October. Why did they call it off in the first instance? Our unions leaders should think well.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2013 at 4:25 PM

    our greedy politicians are just using the unions to fight GEJ

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2013 at 5:54 PM

    ASUP IS CONFUSED!

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