The assembly between the Federal Authorities and the management of the Senior Employees Affiliation of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Educational Employees Union of Universities and Allied Establishments on Wednesday reached an impasse as each party failed to achieve a settlement.
The Nationwide President of SSANU, Muhammed Ibrahim, instructed our correspondent that the unions would proceed with the strike.
“Strike continues,” Ibrahim stated in response to the assembly.
SSANU and NASU commenced a seven-day nationwide strike on Monday to protest the federal authorities’ refusal to launch their four-month salaries, which were withheld in 2021 because they launched a strike.
The federal government of then President Muhammadu Buhari withheld the salaries, insisting on the precept of ‘No work; no pay’.
Nevertheless, President Bola Tinubu’s current administration ordered the discharge of the withheld salaries of members of the Educational Employees Union of Universities, who had been additionally affected by the previous administration’s ‘no work, no pay’ stance.
SSANU and NASU had been, nonetheless, displeased to be overlooked.
They wrote to the Tinubu authorities, asking that their withheld salaries be launched.
The federal government ignored the repeated calls, following which the two unions launched a strike.
The PUNCH experiences that the seven-day warning strike, which started on Monday, grounded educational actions on college campuses nationwide.
