ASUP/COEASU Strike: FG Insists on
No Work, No Pay
This is as the Committee of Provosts of
Colleges of Education, appealed to the government to intensify efforts
to resolve the five months strike by the academic and non academic staff
of the CoE.
The Supervising Minister of Education,
Mr. Nyesom Wike, speaking during a courtesy visit of the Provosts to
his office in Abuja Friday, said it would be unfair to continue to use
taxpayer’s monies to pay the salaries of the striking workers.
“…believe that you can go on strike and
your salary would continue. You are happy, collecting your salary when
you are not working. We take other taxpayers’ money, and you are smiling
to the bank,” he said.
Wike disclosed that he received a letter
from ASUP where the union allegedly noted that since the policy did not
work with their counterparts in the Universities, it would not work
with them.
“Government is serious this period on ‘No work, No pay’. Issue of blackmailing government every time, it will no longer work,” he said and added that the unions could not continue to insist that things must be done their own way.
“Government is serious this period on ‘No work, No pay’. Issue of blackmailing government every time, it will no longer work,” he said and added that the unions could not continue to insist that things must be done their own way.
He also described as blackmail, comments
credited to leaders of the striking unions that the government was not
making efforts to resolve the strike.
The Minister listed some of the efforts
that have already been made by the government to resolve the strike in
relation to the demands of the unions.
He lamented that ASUP has refused to
allow the government pay the salary arrears for the migration to CONTISS
15 in two instalments.
“There was no time we paid all the
monies to ASUU at once,” he said, adding that the monies for the
revitalisation of infrastructure in universities did not go into the
coffers of ASUU.
“There must be negotiations. We have tried, we have made efforts, and the unions cannot insist things must be done their own way. That is extremism,” he said.
“There must be negotiations. We have tried, we have made efforts, and the unions cannot insist things must be done their own way. That is extremism,” he said.
Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the
Provosts Committee, Dr. Ezoem Ignatius Nwanze said the strike in the CoE
have grounded the sector and turned their campuses into graveyards.
He noted that the committee has also made efforts to talk with the unions who have instead accused them (Provosts) of sabotage and of being government agents.
“We know what you are doing already, but we want you to resolve this issue once and for all, so that the unions would not feel like second class citizens,” Nwanze said. Source: ThisDay Newspaper
He noted that the committee has also made efforts to talk with the unions who have instead accused them (Provosts) of sabotage and of being government agents.
“We know what you are doing already, but we want you to resolve this issue once and for all, so that the unions would not feel like second class citizens,” Nwanze said. Source: ThisDay Newspaper
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