The Federal Government of Nigeria
has threatened to invoke Section 43 of the Trade Dispute Act of the labour law
against the three non-teaching staff of universities, who have been on strike
since December 2017.
The Joint Action Committee, JAC,
which comprised Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU; Non
Academic Staff Union of Educational Institutions, NASU, and National
Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, embarked on strike over alleged
failure of government to keep its own part of the agreement with the unions.
Speaking on the protracted
industrial action embarked upon by the non-teaching staff in the universities,
Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, stated that the strike
was illegal, claiming that the unions went contrary to the agreement reached by
the two parties.
He said: “They are on strike and
it is an illegal strike, because reached a collective bargaining agreement and
then you were not quick in accessing the money and the other union, ASUU
accessed plenty of it, about 70 per cent or 80 per cent of it, I don’t know,
and then you return and say you are going on strike, it is illegal.
“We don’t want to bring hardship
to homes but I am inviting them to come back because if they don’t come back, I
will invoke Section 43 of the Trade Dispute Act, but I don’t want them to be
the first group of unions that I will invoke that because if I do so, the story
will not be palatable.”
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