According to a statement by the ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke, this is one of the many issues affecting the Nigerian University System as discussed by the union during its National Executive Council meeting at the University of Maiduguri in Borno State.
Osodeke said the ASUU NEC reiterated that the application of the anti-labour ‘No-Work-No-Pay’ policy to academics ignores the indisputable facts that only the teaching component of academics’ work was suspended during the strike action.
The union commended Nigerian academics for their courage, resilience, and determination to weather through the economic, social, and emotional storms unleashed on them due to their unpaid salaries.
ASUU attributed its past strike actions to the failure of successive governments to honour agreements and memoranda arrived at through the collective bargaining principle enunciated by the International Labour Organisation and domesticated in Nigeria’s labour law.
It, therefore, called on President Bola Tinubu to put machinery in motion for the speedy conclusion of the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement following the recommendations of the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee, to restore the integrity of the NUS.
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