Non-teaching staff in the universities will on February fifth 2021, commence a nationwide strike over the Federal Government’s handling of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, sharing formula for the forty billion naira earned academic allowances and non-payment of arrears of the new minimum wage.
The Joint Action Committee, JAC, comprising the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, announced this during a press briefing at Abuja.
The committee had last week embarked on a three-day protest over the government’s failure to honour the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the unions on October twentieth, 2020.
The JAC, led by the SSANU National President, Mohammed Ibrahim, and NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi, said other contentious issues that informed the decision to embark on a nationwide industrial action include inconsistencies in the IPPIS payment and the delay in the renegotiation of the FGN/ASUU/SSANU 2009 agreement.
Others are the non-payment of retirement benefits to former members, non-constitution of visitation panels to universities, poor funding of universities, teaching staff usurping the headship of non-teaching units, among others.
The committee disclosed that only one issue was partially resolved out of the seven issues under contention.
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