{"id":102612,"date":"2023-01-19T23:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102612"},"modified":"2023-01-19T23:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:46:18","slug":"we-may-embark-on-strike-if-fg-fails-to-meet-demands-asuu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/we-may-embark-on-strike-if-fg-fails-to-meet-demands-asuu\/","title":{"rendered":"We may embark on strike if FG fails to meet demands \u2014 ASUU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1755491639617073008\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigerian public universities might be shut down again any moment as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) hinted at the possibility of returning to strike this year if the Federal Government fails to meet its demands.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This was disclosed by ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke in an interview with newsmen on Thursday, January 19, 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the union president, the government had yet to address the issues that led to previous industrial actions which lasted for eight months.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">ASUU embarked on industrial action on February 14, 2022, following the government\u2019s failure to honour the agreement it reached with the lecturers in 2009 and meet other demands by the union.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Following an Appeal Court ruling in favour of the government on September 21, 2022, directing ASUU to resume work while upholding a similar injunction earlier given by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, the union called off its strike on October 14.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Unlike in the past, where striking workers were paid for the period they downed tools, the government vowed it would not pay ASUU.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">At the end of October \u2013 two weeks after they resumed work \u2013 ASUU members received a half-month salary, which the government described as \u2018pro-rata.\u2019<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The union has since demanded that the government pay its members\u2019 backlog.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking during the interview on the possibility of another industrial strike, Osodeke said, \u201cIt is not possible in this country, except we have a set of leaders that will be elected and will be human beings and think about the system.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said ASUU members continued working because they wanted the best for the nation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He pointed out that his group was waiting for the government to fulfill its promises which led to the suspension of the union\u2019s eight-month strike in 2022.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian public universities might be shut down again any moment as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) hinted at the possibility of returning to strike this year if the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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