Th ree non-teaching staff union in Nigerian universities have declared an indefi nite strike from Monday, September 11 over what they called government insensitivity to their plight.
Th e unions, under the auspices of Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), said the workers would not suspend the strike until their demands were met.
Th e workers demands include non-payment of earned allowances, lack of good governance, poor funding as against the UNESCO recommendation, inadequate infrastructure in universities, abandoned projects, irregular payment of salaries, implementation of CONTISS 14 and 15 for technologists and corruption in the university system.
Others are registration of NUPEMCO (pension management scheme), showing more commitment and seriousness in the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/University unions’ agreements, ensuring the headship of non-teaching units by non-teaching staff employed for the purpose of those units, among others.
In a press conference in Abuja, the chairman of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the three unions, who is also the President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke, explained reasons for their decisions.
Ugwoke said the nationwide strike would be total and comprehensive.
