BREAKING: ASUU begins warning strike
BREAKING: ASUU begins warning strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has commenced a two- week warning strike
The strike is effective Monday, 9th of March 2020, which is today.
Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU National President, announced this at the end of the National Executive Council meeting(NEC) held at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT).
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ASUU National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi disclosed that the strike action was to ensure the federal government implement the agreements and resolutions of the Memorandum of Action discussed in the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
Ogunyemi said that the 2017 Memorandum of Action (MoU)has also not been implemented, the reason for its two-weeks strike action.
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The ASUU was formed in 1978, a successor to the Nigerian Association of University Teachers formed in 1965 and covering academic staff in all of the Federal and State Universities in the country.
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The union was active in struggles against the military regime during the 1980s.[1] In 1988 the union organized a National Strike to obtain fair wages and university autonomy. As a result, the ASUU was proscribed on 7 August 1988 and all its property seized. It was allowed to resume in 1990, but after another strike was again banned on 23 August 1992. However, an agreement was reached on 3 September 1992 that met several of the union’s demands including the right of workers to collective bargaining. The ASUU organized further strikes in 1994 and 1996, protesting against the dismissal of staff by the Sani Abacha military regime.
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BREAKING: ASUU begins warning strike
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