Tuesday 22 November 2016

ASUU end warning strike, threatens with indefinite

The ASUU warning strike is gaining momentum as the lecturers are threatening with an indefinite strike
"No lectures, no examinations, no departmental and faculty meetings, as members will not participate."
An attempt by the Senate to reach consensus between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the federal government failed after an eight-hour meeting was deadlocked on Monday, November 21.
While the sides have failed to agree on lecturers' allowances, the education workers are now threatening to turn a week's nationwide waring strike (that ends on Tuesday, November 22) into indefinite.
The news was made public by Dr. Ifeanyi Abada, the chairman of the university of Nigeria, Nsukka chapter of the  ASUU.
He said: "ASUU was left with no option than to proceed on the one-week warning strike; failure to meet our demands, we will go on an indefinite strike.
The National Executive Committee made efforts to resolve this issue with the government but government remained unyielding.
The strike compliance in UNN is total, no lectures, no examinations, no departmental and faculty meetings, as members will not participate.
UNN chapter will not renege on the directive of the national body until government addresses all the issues raised.
Our monitoring team is moving round; any lecturer found teaching will be sanctioned accordingly."
Recall that the warning strike was declared after the failure of the government to implement terms of the 2009 and 2013 agreements.
The agreements included: payments of staff entitlements since December 2015, funding of universities for revitalisation, pension, TSA and university autonomy and renegotiation of 2009 agreement.

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