Lecturers in our nation’s federal and state polytechnics went on what they tagged “warning strike” last week to protest the non-implementation of their demands including the 2010 agreement which is overdue for renegotiation since 2013.

The five-day strike by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has come and gone but it may take the polytechnic system weeks to recover from its impact, namely the disruption of academic calender.

This is because most of the polytechnics have just started their first semester academic programmes while very few are still battling with 2015/2016 academic session before they were caught up in the industrial dispute between the union and government.