ASUU, CONUA And Federal Govt’s Quest To End Public Varsity Strikes Feature
Upon the new union recognition in October last year, minister of labour and employment, Dr Chris Ngige maintained that they now have powers by their registration to operate in parallel with ASUU. This according to him is in the spirit of freedom of association.
But the minister of Labour and Employment, while responding to that demand, insisted that the Trade Dispute Act 2004 gives him the sole power to register new trade unions, either by registering a new union or regrouping existing ones. LEADERSHIP Weekend gathered that CONUA already has branches in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, University of Benin, Federal University, Lokoja, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, University of Jos among others.
Sadly, ASUU continues its battle with the federal government over half salary payment hinged on the “No Work No Pay policy” with the federal government, arguing that it cannot pay ASUU members salaries for the period they were on strike. “So, it will be unjust for the government to apply its ‘no work no pay’ policy on us, and on that principle is what we are following through which we wrote letters to various ministries and it is consistent that we have never declared strike and we are not strike.”
“Please note that details of members which must always be hard and soft copies should also include individual IPPIS numbers for ease of identification. While we appreciate your understanding, kindly accept the assurances of the warm regard of the Accountant General of the Federation,” it added.
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