University workers have issued a strike notice to press home their
demand for the implementation of their 2009 agreement with the Federal
Government.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is on strike over the same matter.
The non teaching members made up of the National Association of Academic
Technologists (NAAT), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and
Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of
Nigerian Universities (SSANU) said the government was taking them for
granted.
Acording to The Nation, part of the demands of the three unions include:
The payment of Earned Allowances
R review of the governance system in universities
Improved funding in line with UNESCO recommendations
Provisions of infrastructure in universities and payment of salary shortfall
Ugokwe said during the strike, there will be no provision of services no matter how skeletal.
He said: “If an agreement was signed in 2009 and now in 2017, we are
still asking for the implementation of such agreement, does it not show
that we have been exceedingly patient?
“Unfortunately, seven
years after, we are still at the sorry situation we were before the MOU
as the issues in contention were not addressed and government t kept a
dead silence despite letters and entreaties reminding them, of their
commitment to the non teaching staff unions”
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