By Our Reporter
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has given an advance notice of a 21-day strike to the Federal Government over yet to be implemented agreements with the latter.
This was made known by sources within the National Executive Council, NEC, of the union on Monday. The notice was consequent on the NEC meeting held at the University of Ibadan.
A copy of the notice of strike is expected to be sent to both the Federal Ministries of Labour and that of Education.
Making clarifications the inside source sated that, “It is not an ultimatum but a strike notice. We are giving them 21 days’ notice, after which we shall embark on strike.
“Our aim for putting out the notice is that it is a requirement under labour laws so we are trying to ensure that all our actions are done according to the law.”
The national President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke spoke on the outcome of the NEC, lamenting that agreements reached with the Federal Government had not been implemented.
Osodeke referred to the meeting held at the instance of the Minister of Education, saying, “we agreed that after two weeks, we will meet to see the progress the government has made.“We will also see what we will do next if the government fail to implement the agreements reached.”
ASUU president stated that some of the demands included the non-implementation of the 2009 re-negotiated agreements. He added that the agreements had stayed for over six years without implementation.
Prof. Osodeke said the academic allowances due to the union members had also accumulated for more than six years, saying agreement was also reached on the issue of revitalisation fund, on the Needs Assessment Report to raise N200 billion yearly for a period of five years.
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