SSANU, NASU Resume Today After Warning Strike

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions will resume today (Monday) after the seven-day warning strike they embarked upon last week.

Their sister union, the National Association of Academic Technologists of the University, also embarked on a three-day strike last week.

The three unions are protesting the withheld salaries following a prolonged strike they embarked upon in 2022.

Recal that the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari invoked withheld their salaries by invoking the policy of ‘No Work, No Pay’.

However, President Bola Tinubu recently ordered the payment of the withheld salaries of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), who had also embarked on a strike in 2022.

As a result, NASU, SSANU and NAAT called on the government to pay them too, threatening to embark on a strike.

Amid the strike last week, the striking unions had a meeting with the Federal Government but the meeting ended in a deadlock.

Giving an update on the issue during a Zoom meetng on Sunday, the National President, Joint Action Committee of SSANU, NASU, Mr Mohammed Ibrahim, said: “The strike ends tonight, (Sunday), everyone is resuming to work on Monday, and the government has till now not acceded to our demands. No payment has been made. The government is not responding to us.”

He further said that the National Executive Council of the unions would have an meeting and discuss during the week to know the next line of action.”

Ibrahim emphasized that aside agitation for the payment of their withheld salaries, there was the need for the Federal Government to consider the renegotiation of 2009 FGN/NASU and SSANU agreements and payment of N50bn earned allowances.