ASUU SUSPENDS STRIKE INDEFINITELY

Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 01:00) Written by Administrator Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:22

 

The purpose of this Press Conference is not to re-open these issues that are now common knowledge. The purpose is to explain to you some important details about the Agreement reached,  and to give you ASUU’s position on the extent to which the Agreement could go to resolve the problems which face the Nigerian University System and the education system as a whole.

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SUSPENSION OF STRIKE

Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 01:00) Written by PROF. UKACHUKWU AWUZIE, FNIA Monday, 12 October 2009 23:22

AS you will recall, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) painfully declared an indefinite strike action on the 22nd June, 2009 following the refusal of government to sign the Agreement it willingly, through the process of Collective Bargaining, entered into with the Union after two and half years of negotiations.

Ever since the strike action commenced our branches have remained resolute on the action to get government to return to the negotiating table, conclude the process and sign the agreement. Similarly, many organizations and well meaning Nigerians had intervened in one way or the other to bring the matter to an end by appealing to Government to return to the negotiating table and sign the Agreement with ASUU.

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NLC Supports ASUU Strike

Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 01:00) Written by Administrator Wednesday, 02 September 2009 11:40

The Nigeria Labour Congress has expressed solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities' ongoing strike action aimed at sanitising the universities. In a letter to President Umaru Musa Yara Adua, the NLC General Secretary John E. Odah said "The closure of our universities damages our development work and retards meaningful progress towards making our country one of the twenty biggest economies by the Year 2020.  Such closure which affects all undergraduate and graduate students also means that this army of youths who should be in school are left in a state of limbo with attendant consequences for social relations in the country"
The NLC has not changed its position and has not called on the ASUU to suspend the strike.

The current situation of Federal Government Universities

Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 01:00) Written by Administrator Wednesday, 02 September 2009 10:35

Effective from December 2006, Staff Unions of Universities (ASUU, SSANU and NASU) have been re-negotiating the 2001 Agreements with Federal Government of Nigeria based on the Principle of Collective Bargaining. All previous negotiations with the Federal Government have been centrally done. That is, staff unions negotiate with representatives of Association of Pro-Chancellors and sign an agreement centrally. This is in consonance with the existing framework of Collective Bargaining as contained in Nigeria Labour Act (1990); which defines “Collective Bargaining” as “an agreement in writing regarding working conditions and terms of employment concluded between

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