NASU TO JOIN ASUU STRIKE

Non academic employees in the universities are
warming up for industrial action as a fall out of the
resolution of the ASUU strike.
They took the decision during the delegates
conference in Owerri under the banner of the Non
Academic Staff Union ((NASU). The communique
was signed by Deputy President/Chairman of the
Universities Trade Group, Comrade Sunday
Adeyemi and the Deputy General Secretary,
Comrade F.J Ajayi.
The union said it would go on strike the moment a
negative action is directed at its members outside
the original agreement reached in the 2009
Federal Government NASU agreement.
NASU also expressed worry that its 2009
agreement with the Federal Government was due
for review since June, 2012, noting that the non-
implementation of the full content of the FG/
University based Union 2009 agreement is a
political strategy aimed at mitigating early review
of the agreement.
The Union urged President Goodluck Jonathan to
put necessary machinery in motion to commence
the upward review of the agreement within the
next three months.
The Council in session also warned the Federal
Government not to create more crisis it cannot
manage in the process of resolving the ASUU
strike, adding that some of its members, including
NAAT and SSANU who were formerly members of
the Interim Monitoring Committee set up by the
Federal Government in October 23, 2013 to
confirm the initial payment made to the
Universities by the Federal Government, have been
excluded.
The Union also sympathised with the family of the
late Professor Festus Iyayi who it noted had been in
the struggle for a positive change in the nation's
education.