The strike action em
barked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State branch, has been suspended.
Speaking to newsmen in Ado Ekiti, ASUP branch Chairman, Comrade Tunji Owoeye, said the two-and-half months industrial action was suspended following the decision reached after a meeting with the Education Minister, Malam Ibraham Shekarau, recently in Abuja.
Owoeye said one of the decisions reached at the meeting was the federal government directive that the institution should pay the workers CONTISS 15, stressing that apart from that, all other issues were traded out amicably.
He said management of the Federal Polytechnic was asked to withdraw all queries and pay backlog of workers’ salaries to them.
He said the issue of deduction of pensions from casual workers is still being resolved by management of the school.
Owoeye further said that the issue of cooperative deductions is still also lingering, but the Union will at the end of the day resolve it amicably.
The industrial unions in the Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti had in January embarked on strike action against the school’s management poor response to the issues concerning staff welfare and salaries payment.
The unions are the polytechnic’s chapters of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP).
