ASUU Begins Two-Week Warning Strike Over Payroll, 2009 Pact With Govt - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 10, 2020
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU today began a two-week warning strike.
ASUU National President BiodunOgunyemi announced this at end of the union’s National Executive Council, NECmeeting at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology.
He noted that the strike is aimed atcompelling the Federal Government to implement the agreement and resolution ofa Memorandum of Action both parties reached under the 2009 agreement, the 2013Memorandum of Understanding, MoU and the 2017 Memorandum of Action, saying noneof these had been implemented.
The ASUU President, while addressingjournalists   said following a full review of the state of Nigerianuniversities, the union draw the attention of all stakeholders to an impendingcrisis in the university system arising from non-remittance of third partydeductions from the salaries of members and non-payment of February 2020salaries.
He insisted on ASUU’s rejection ofthe Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS.