SSANU to embark on indefinite strike December 24

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, has threatened to embark on indefinite strike over the planned retrenchment of over 2,000 staff of University Unity Schools. Addressing journalists at its national secretariat, Abuja, the National President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke said that the association has directed all its members to join the indefinite […]

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, has threatened to embark on indefinite strike over the planned retrenchment of over 2,000 staff of University Unity Schools.
Addressing journalists at its national secretariat, Abuja, the National President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke said that the association has directed all its members to join the indefinite strike action which would commence on December 24, 2015.
He said that the planned retrenchment would be a gross violation and breach of the SSANU/FGN 2009 Agreement, which explicitly stated that the university shall bear full capital and recurrent cost of University Staff Primary Schools.
He said that the association had already written to the Minister of Education, Malam  Adamu Adamu urging him to order the immediate withdrawal of all letters from the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, National Universities Commission and the Federal Ministry of Education directing Vice-Chancellors to remove personnel of the University Staff Primary Schools from the pay-tool.
 He said, “In the letter dated 17th December, 2015, SSANU, told the minister that the association would resume its national industrial action in rejection of the directives to the Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission to retrench over 2,000 workers.  We also called for the withdrawal of letters of termination of appointment issued to the University Staff Schools teachers in some universities, notably University of Ilorin, Federal University of Technology, Akure and Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Sokoto.”
Ugwoke said December was given as a deadline for the removal of personnel/teachers of University Staff Schools from the pay-roll of government, which would throw over 2,000 workers from over 31  universities into unemployment market.
Ugwuoke noted that the affected staff were employed by the universities councils for decades and have been productively contributing their quota to the development of the Nigeria’s educational sector.