Non-academic Varsity Unions To Start Warning Strike On Monday



The major non -academic unions in the nation ’s university system have issued a notice to the Federal Government that they will embark on a five -day warning strike over the failure of the government to implement its 2009 agreements with the unions.
The unions are the National Association of Academic Technologists, Non -Academic Staff Union and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities .
The Joint Action Committee of the unions said in a statement on Saturday that the decision was taken to embark on the warning strike to prevail on the government to commence full implementation of the 2009 agreements .
The JAC letter conveying the strike notice to the Minister of Education , Adamu Adamu, was signed by the President of SSANU, Mr . Samson Ugwoke, the President of NAAT , Sani Suleiman, and the President of NASU , Chris Ani .
The union leaders also sent copies of the warning strike notice to the Minister of Labour and Employment, the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission and President , Nigeria Labour Congress .
They lamented that the poor funding of the universities had resulted in non -payment of salaries regularly and increased corruption in the system.
The also criticised the government for the decay in infrastructure and abandoned projects in the university system.
“ The University system is challenged by poor governance and administrative lapses which need to be addressed holistically . These are poor funding of our universities, shortfall in payment of staff salaries, increasing corruption in the university system .”
They also complained about the non - payment of earned allowances as agreed and the lack of adequate teaching and learning facilities which they said had affected productivity of members of staff of the universities among others.

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