The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has set to join NLC, TUC indefinite strike.
PRISTINEGIST earlier reported that the TUC and NLC, on Friday, announced a nationwide strike action scheduled to begin on Monday, 3rd June, over the refusal of the federal government to agree on a new minimum wage with the labour leaders.
As a result, Monday’s academic and administrative operations will be suspended as lecturers and non-teaching employees of the country’s public postsecondary institutions join the walkout.
According to an ASUU member on the National Executive Council (NEC), the national executives will attend the NLC strike rally in Abuja, while the various branches would begin the indefinite strike alongside the state council of the NLC.
“ASUU as an affiliate of NLC will participate in the indefinite strike. Our members have been informed. No lecturer will go to class as from tomorrow until when the NLC calls off the strike”, he told The Sun.
The national body has instructed its members to join the nationwide strike, according to one of SSANU’s chapter chairs.
The chairman gave an explanation of how tomorrow’s paralysis of administrative activity would continue until the industrial action is put on hold in public universities.
State and federal polytechnics will face a similar situation, as stated by ASUP President Shammah Kpanja, who stated that “ASUP will surely join the strike.”
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), meantime, has stated that it supports the statewide strike called by the TUC and NLC, as Naija News previously reported.
