Senior Staff Association of
Nigeria Universities (SSANU) has threatened to resume strike over failure of
the Nigerian government to honour the agreement earlier reached with the union
in September.
A meeting of the Joint Action
Committee (JAC) of the three non- teaching staff in the universities comprising
SSANU, non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and NAAT has been fixed for next Tuesday
to fix a day to commence the action
SSANU National President and Chairman
of JAC, Comrade Samson Chijioke Ugwoke, stated this yesterday while speaking at
the 32nd National Executive Council (NEC), meeting at University of Port
Harcourt, Rivers State.
Ugwoke said that the Union is not
intimidated by the plan by the federal government to implement the no work, no
pay policy, stressing that “it will be morally and legally wrong if the
government should go contrary to the agreement it entered into with the
association and expect SSANU not to react”.
He also condemned the continuous
victimisation of some of its members by the authorities of University of Abuja
and the alleged plan to hand over staff school of the University to the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT), State Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB).
Ugwoke lamented that that the
federal government has failed to implement all the agreements it entered into
with the union before the industrial dispute declared by it was called off.
He said: “We had issues like
earned allowances, short falls in salary, staff schools matter, non-
implementation of the judgment of the National Industrial Court which we got
against the federal government to recall all teachers back to their offices
etc, we had an MoU with the federal government in January after a one week
warning strike.
“From January to September, the
federal government did not do anything as regards the MoU (Memorandum of
Understanding) signed in January and that necessitated our second strike which
was indefinite.
“We entered into an MoU on salary
shortfalls, a development that has never happened before in the university
system where staff are paid fractional salaries.
“We objected to that and the
federal government promised the money. Information reaching me shows that up
till now, not all the universities have received the shortfall.”
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