ASUU Indefinite Strike At UNIJOS

REASONS FOR STRIKE BY ASUU

According to Dr. Christopher Piwune, UNIJOS Branch Chairman of ASUU, the university management has deliberately shy away from its responsibilities and has repeatedly renounced its promises made to the union to rectify many irregularities surrounding payment of entitlements meant for its members.

 The union also lamented the disparity in salary between its members and academic staff of other federal universities, adding that UNIJOS keeps complaining that there was no money.
 

“We have held series of meetings with the management of the university, and have had to call our zonal executives to intervene on our behalf, but each time the university promised to correct the anomalies, it only reneged when the agreed time reached. We have written 13 letters within the last six months to the administration over these issues, and we have met with them over five times.

 In its reaction, the management of the university said it got the letter informing it of the indefinite strike, but added that that ASUU did not state the reasons it was embarking on the strike action.

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