Skip to main content

Advert

Ng

Strike: SSANU, NAAT, NASU to meet FG



The non-teaching staff of Nigerian universities on Monday said they would meet to decide on a date to meet with Federal Government over the indefinite strike embarked by the unions.
It will be recalled that the non-teaching staff of universities under the auspices of Joint Action Committee (JAC) had threatened to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday, September 11 over non-implementation of the 2009 agreement.
Mr Samson Ugwoke, the President of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) made this known in a phone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja.
“We have commenced the strike today; the strike is total, comprehensive and indefinite.
“We only just got a letter from the Ministry of Labour and Employment inviting us for a meeting today.
“But, it is not something I alone can decide but the JAC as it involves other unions, we have to come together and take that decision on when to meet with the Federal Government, ‘’he said.
The unions under the JAC are the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and SSANU.
The demands of the unions include the payment of earned allowances to members, a review of the governance system in universities, improved funding in line with UNESCO recommendations.
Provisions of infrastructures in universities and payment of salary shortfall being owed members, implementation of the National Industrial Court judgment on university staff schools, registration of NUPEMCO.
Others are implementation of CONTISS 14 and 15 for technologists, improvement of teaching and learning facilities in the universities, stemming the tide of corruption in the university system.
The unions also called on Federal Government to show more commitment and seriousness in the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/University unions agreement, among others.
NAN reports that the Ministry of Labour and Employment had invited the unions for a crucial meeting on Monday but the unions were absent as they claimed they were not aware of any such forum.
The ministry has further postponed the meeting for Thursday, Sept. 14.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

COURSES YOU SHOULD AVOID/BE CAREFUL WITH IN UNN

Courses You Should Avoid/Be Careful With In UNN: Am going to list down some departments in UNN you should clean your eyes very well if you want to go there or plan to change to them, you should just be ready or you will end up regretting why you make such choice. One of the mistakes students make in their academic pursuit starts with the choice of course or department they choose in Jamb. Some people will use their hands and drag themselves into a hot fire which they will start regretting or saying "if I had known" later but by then, its already late. Some people choose course because their friends choose the course, some choose it because of the way the name sounds, some just choose without asking questions, some choose because maybe its easy to enter, etc. I always hear students saying "I shouldn't have gotten myself into this department that I am if I knew this department is like this" There are also so many students who are just "flowing...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT UNN MANDATARY BLOG FOR ALL STUDENTS

University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) has just resently mandated all her student to create a blog and run it, many have been wondering why the university authority made it mandatary that every student own and run a blog, here is the main reason, the university has set to make her website visible at just a click on google and any blog around Nigeria, what do i mean by this; the university authority want every student to own a blog such that every post you create you will include UNN web address which is  www.unn.edu.ng  at the end of your post or in between your post just as i have done above such that any body reading your post will see the school web address and possibly click and visit the school website. WHAT DO YOU STAND TO GAIN FROM THIS Actually the university do not have any thing in store for you, yeah that is the plan truth its not their responsibility to get you what you need to  make money with your blog. There is a saying that you do not marry for some ...

2017 WORLD BANK PAN-AFRICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOR UNDERGRADUATE

2017 World Bank Pan-African Scholarship for Undergraduate students This is to inform the general public that the 2017 World Bank Pan- African Scholarship Awards for Undergraduate students in Nigerian Universities is now open for application. World Bank is providing Scholarship Awards of #250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand naira) to suitably and qualified students in Nigerian Universities in different disciplines in full-time every year. All Interested candidates are hereby invited from full-time degree students of the under-listed faculties, in Nigerian Universities: Agriculture Arts and Humanities Basic medical Science Education Engineering Information and communication Technology Law Management Science Medicine Pharmacy Sciences Social Science Veterinary Medicine. It should be noted that all 200 level students and above are expected to obtain at least a 2.50 GPA in their previous year. To apply for the 2017 World Bank Pan-African Scholarship, ensure th...