The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union have declared a 7-day warning strike to demand the payment of four months of withheld salaries of their members, after the 2022 nationwide strike.
According to Channels, the decision was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions, after a meeting which held in Akure at the weekend.
Speaking after the decision was taken, the SSANU President, Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim said, “What played out at today’s meeting clearly is that members have unanimously resolved that they will not accept this injustice meted on us, because there is no explanation that can scientifically or naturally be given to anyone as to why one group of our staff is paid and then the other three groups are left.
“Therefore, we have given the next one week where members will go back to their branches and sensitize our members. This time around, it is going to be a total strike. For seven days, there will be no water, no electricity, no medicals, no office work. Everybody will leave his office work until when those seven days reach.
“However, we are hopeful, we are prayerful that government listens and then does the needful because we also know that we have a responsibility for the society, for the university and for our students. So nobody should blame us if this thing happens, because we have given enough notices, we have made enough sensitization and we have contacted enough stakeholders.
“And then JAC leadership, made up of the national officers of the two unions, NASU and SSANU will meet in Abuja by the weekend to declare the strike which will start on Monday, the 18th of March 2024, which will last seven days.
“If government decides to do the needful and listens carefully then leaders will meet to reveal the situation that is opposition.”
