BREAKING NEWS: ASUP Begins Nationwide Strike Wednesday Despite FG's Invitation
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) on Tuesday said it will commence a nationwide strike action across the nation's polytechnics Wednesday, December 12.
According to the union's President, Usman Dutse, the move became necessary to get the federal government to deliver on the 2009 and 2017 agreements reached with the union.
“There is an invitation for a meeting on December 17, but we will still commence our strike on Wednesday," he said.
Usman Dutse
Adding, “I don’t know what will happen at the meeting or what they have decided, but until we meet with them, we cannot predict."
He explained that directives have been served on all its members nationwide to abdicate their services by midnight of December 12.
Dutse however listed the 10 point demands of the union to include non-implementation of Need Assessment reports of 2014 as agreed with the minister at the meeting of October 2017.
“They are lack of seriousness in the renegotiation in the union’s 2010 agreement; non-release of arrears of CONTISS 15 migration for the lower cadre; non-release of arrears of promotions and shortfalls in personnel releases as well as non-payment of allowances.
“Other agitations are non-payment of salaries in many state-owned polytechnics, non-payment of union check off dues, pension deductions and other statutory deductions from staff salaries to the appropriate bodies, continue victimisation of union officers,” he said.