The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has said that it will embark on an industrial action once universities are reopened.
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, the National President of SSANU, Samson Ugwoke, who spoke on behalf of JAC said, “A strike action has been declared to commence effective from the date of resumption of work after the lifting of coronavirus lockdown.”
He said, “As a responsible union, we have avoided this crisis but the irresponsibility of government and its officials have led us to a point where it had become inevitable.
“If by the time schools are asked to reopen and the needful is not done, it means hope is lost and the earlier avoidable industrial conflict becomes inevitable.”
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Ugwoke decried the challenges of short payments of salaries in almost all the federal universities, adding that the understanding the union had with government was that the short payments and mutilated salaries its members had earlier experienced would cease upon enrollment in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) platform.
He said the workers were also given the assurance that their Earned Allowances that had not been previously properly captured across all universities would be properly integrated upon enrolment into IPPIS.
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However, he said, rather than this, ”Our enrollment has turned out to be a complete disaster because of the inconsistencies and irregularities currently being witnessed in the payment of salaries and emolument of our members.”
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“There have been unwarranted and inexplicable delays going into the second half of the next month before payments of salaries; haphazard payments leading to non- payment, underpayment, over-payments and multiple payments in some cases; misinterpretation and wrongful implementation of extant documents on statutory deductions as regard staff salaries and allowances in the university system; non payment of arrears on new minimum wage; and non issuance of payslip to workers,” he added.
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