Niger Delta varsity: ASUU weighs options on strike
ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the
Niger Delta University (NDU), Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State is
mulling a position on government’s offer to pay one-month salary or call
off the strike it declared over unpaid salaries.
The institution hasbeen shut down and students sent home for three months since lecturers decided to embark on the industrial action to press home demand for five months salary arrears.
Governor Seriake Dickson, in his efforts to resolve the face-off with members of ASUU in a meeting with the leadership of the union, offered to pay January salary to the lecturers and other staff of the institution.
In the meeting, Dickson also said pending the outcome of a congress meeting of ASUU to determine an acceptable mode of payment of the salaries, he also approved the payment of 50 per cent of salaries to all staff of the university.
According to him, the approval was part of the decisions reached between the state government and the leadership of ASUU, NDU branch, at a meeting in Government House.
Already, workers under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, National Association of Academic Technologists, and the Non-Academic Staff of Universities have vowed not to return to classes until four months out of their six months salaries are paid.
Chairman of ASUU in the institution, Dr. Stanley Ogoun, in an interview, said congress would wait for the state government to fulfil its promise of paying the one month salary before the congress would take a decision.
“The decision to call off the strike is left for the congress to decide.
The government has promised to pay one month and ASUU members want to see the commitment of the payment before a decision would be taken; the leadership of ASUU cannot take a decision, only congress can do that,” he said - THE SUN.
The institution hasbeen shut down and students sent home for three months since lecturers decided to embark on the industrial action to press home demand for five months salary arrears.
Governor Seriake Dickson, in his efforts to resolve the face-off with members of ASUU in a meeting with the leadership of the union, offered to pay January salary to the lecturers and other staff of the institution.
In the meeting, Dickson also said pending the outcome of a congress meeting of ASUU to determine an acceptable mode of payment of the salaries, he also approved the payment of 50 per cent of salaries to all staff of the university.
According to him, the approval was part of the decisions reached between the state government and the leadership of ASUU, NDU branch, at a meeting in Government House.
Already, workers under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, National Association of Academic Technologists, and the Non-Academic Staff of Universities have vowed not to return to classes until four months out of their six months salaries are paid.
Chairman of ASUU in the institution, Dr. Stanley Ogoun, in an interview, said congress would wait for the state government to fulfil its promise of paying the one month salary before the congress would take a decision.
“The decision to call off the strike is left for the congress to decide.
The government has promised to pay one month and ASUU members want to see the commitment of the payment before a decision would be taken; the leadership of ASUU cannot take a decision, only congress can do that,” he said - THE SUN.
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