Non academic employees in the
universities are warming up for
industrial action as a fall out of the
resolution of the ASUU strike.
They took the decision during the
delegates conference in Owerri
under the banner of the Non
Academic Staff Union ((NASU). The
communique was signed by Deputy
President/Chairman of the Universities
Trade Group, Comrade Sunday
Adeyemi and the Deputy General
Secretary, Comrade F.J Ajayi.
The union said it would go on strike
the moment a negative action is
directed at its members outside the
original agreement reached in the
2009 Federal Government NASU
agreement.
NASU also expressed worry that its
2009 agreement with the Federal
Government was due for review
since June, 2012, noting that the non-
implementation of the full content of
the FG/University based Union 2009
agreement is a political strategy aimed
at mitigating early review of the
agreement.
The Union urged President Goodluck
Jonathan to put necessary machinery
in motion to commence the upward
review of the agreement within the
next three months.
The Council in session also warned the
Federal Government not to create
more crisis it cannot manage in the
process of resolving the ASUU strike,
adding that some of its members,
including NAAT and SSANU who were
formerly members of the Interim
Monitoring Committee set up by the
Federal Government in October 23,
2013 to confirm the initial payment
made to the Universities by the
Federal Government, have been
excluded.
The Union also sympathised with the
family of the late Professor Festus
Iyayi who it noted had been in the
struggle for a positive change in the
nation’s education.
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