Federal Govt, ASUU Meet Over Strike

Federal Govt, ASUU Meet Over Strike

According to The Nation, the Federal Government, ASUU has met over strike.

The Federal Government team led by Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige will meet with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU on Tuesday.

The meeting will hold in the conference room of the Minister.

Head of Press and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Patience Onuobia, announced the meeting in an invitation to journalists on Monday.

The message reads: “The Hon. Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, will be meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities today”.

The ongoing industrial action by ASUU entered its 56th day on Monday.

ASUU on Monday, February 14, 2022, announced a four-week total and comprehensive warning strike following the inability of the union and the Federal Government to reach common ground on the demands of university lecturers.

Some of ASUU’s demands include the release of revitalisation funds for universities, implementation of the re-negotiated 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement and the release of earned allowances for university lecturers.

Others are the deployment of the UTAS payment platform for the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers.

Following the expiration of the initial four weeks of the warning strike, ASUU had gone ahead to declare another eight weeks saying that it was giving the government more time to meet its demands.

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