NON Teaching staff in tertiary institutions in Nigeria,
have advised the Federal Government to ignore the
Memorandum of Understanding it entered into with
the striking lecturers on the aegis of Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, saying its implementation would lead to another round of
crisis. The Non Teaching Staff comprising Non-Academic
Staff Union of Education and Associated
Institutions, NASU, National Association of
Academic Technologists, NAAT, and Senior Staff
Association of Nigerian Universities,SSANU rather
advised government to implement the 2009 agreements it entered with the unions in tertiary
institutions. In a statement signed by Samson Ugwoke,
President of SSANU and spokesperson of NAAT,
SSANU and NASU tited, ‘Our stand on the on-going
ASUU strike’, the unions sympathised with ASUU but
noted that the MoU was not in the best interest of
the education sector. Cross section of stakeholders at a meeting to
review the ongoing strike by ASUU held at the
Trenchard Hall of the University of Ibadan on
Monday. Photo by Dare Fasube It stated “We sympathise and solidarise with our
sister union, ASUU over their long drawn struggle
for the welfare of their members. We urged the
government to build more confidence in
governance, at all times, by respecting agreements
it freely enters into with unions. ”However, we caution that any settlement of the
current dispute must take into account the interests
of all the university-based unions (NAAT, SSANU,
NASU and ASUU). The three Non-Teaching Staff
Unions of NAAT, SSANU and NASU are opposed to
any extraneous demands by either ASUU or any group in the university which are prejudicial to the
welfare of our members. ”Our stand is that government should jettison the
so called ASUU’s Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) and concentrate on full implementation of
the 2009 FGN/Unions agreements which border on
staff conditions of service and welfare, and
increased funding to universities. ”The MOU being referred to by ASUU is for their
selfish end and it is bound to generate more crises
in the university sub-sector. The Non-Teaching Staff Unions in the universities
will stoutly resist any attemp t to ‘sell’ the
universities to ASUU. ”All university based unions signed agreements in
2009 with the government, it is therefore advised
that all contentious issues in all the agreements be
settled holistically to avoid a ‘relay race’ in strike
actions in the universities. ”The implementation of any union’s MOU should
not come in between the period of implementation
of signed agreements rather, such items in the MOU
should wait to be re-negotiated in another
agreement(s).” www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/ignore-asuus-demands-nasu-naat-ssanu-tell-fg/

Another palavar ooooo

@op u be arsenal fan ooooo hehhehehe hw our match dey go tomorrow now?

These 3 unions should be merged into 1.

Totally misleading thread title...copied and pasted