SSANU: Begins Three Day Warning Strike Today

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The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), the  Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior (SSATURAI) has issued a communique of a three-day nationwide protest, to commence today Monday 17, December 2018, following the inability of government to keep to agreements, especially on Earned Allowance and disobedient of a court judgment on staff schools by the Federal Government and also, the

The three unions had, in a joint resolution at its 35th regular National Executive Council meeting at Enugu State University of Science and Technology resolved to embark on the warning strike.

They accused the federal government of disobeying judgment of the National Industrial Court that had, two years ago, asked that teachers in university staff schools sacked by government be reinstated. They also accused the federal government of being adamant in honouring the judgment to recall the sacked teachers of staff schools.
SSANU President Comrade Chijioke Ugwoke also said that government is yet to pay the #8 billion Earned Allowance, which the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, during the March 13, 2018 conciliation meeting, emphasized and promised government would pay.
Ugwuoke said “Several months after the agreement was reached, the money has yet to be released. The delay in payment has become a source of discomfort and agitation by members of the three unions…”

However, The federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, had informed the Chairman of the Joint Action Committee of NAAT, NASU and SSANU via an August 9, 2018, letter that approval had been given for the release of N8 billion being payment of Earned Allowances for Non-Teaching Staff in the Universities and requested for templates for the payments to the unions.

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