The Joint Action Committee (JAC) has directed university workers under the aegis of Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, (SSANU), to start a three-day national protest from Tuesday.
The protest is to start by 8 am and end at 4pm every day. It further stated that the protests would mark the beginning of series of industrial actions to be embarked upon by JAC.
The directive to embark on the protest was finalized at a meeting held by the leadership of the two unions in Abuja on Friday night.
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The meeting was aimed at reviewing the memorandum of understanding signed with the Federal Government on October 20, 2020.
In a communique signed by Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, the National President of SSANU and Comrade Peters Adeyemi, the General Secretary of NASU, the JAC listed issues that necessitated the directive to include inconsistencies in IPPIS payments; non-payment of Earned Allowance; non-payment of arrears of new minimum wage and delay in the renegotiation of the FGN)NASU/SSANU 2009 Agreements.
Others are the non-payment of retirement benefits to former members; non-constitution of visitation panels to universities; poor funding of universities; teaching staff usurping the headship of non-teaching units.
The committee urged union leaders across the country to use Monday to sensitise members on the need for the protest.
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