University Workers Tell FG To Be Prepared For ‘Mother Of All Strikes’ - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 22, 2019
University workers in the country under the umbrella of the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU have warned the Federal Government to brace up for an indefinite nationwide strike.
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SSANU’sNational Vice President (North), Solomon Alfa, disclosed this to at a pressconference following a meeting of the Joint Action Committee of both unions onThursday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Atthe end of the meeting, the workers who are on a five-day warning strike askedthe government to prepare for what they termed as the “mother of all strikes”.
Thelabour leaders are threatening to proceed on a nationwide industrial actionbarely 24 hours to the expiration of the ongoing one-week strike by the unionmembers.
Bothunions had directed their members to commence the warning strike from Monday toFriday in a letter dated August 16 and jointly signed by the General Secretaryof NASU, Peters Adeyemi, as well as the National President of SSANU, SamsonUgwoke.