NUT Explains Strike Action

The ongoing strike of Nigeria Union of the Teachers in eleven States is over the non-implementation of the Teachers Specific Allowance and Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) Minimum wage.

The strike action has led to a head on collision of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) with NUT.

The NUT National President, Comrade Michael Olukoya said the NUT National Executive Council recently directed the eleven states chapter to embark on indefinite strike action over the non implementation of the Teachers specific  Allowance (TSA) and Teachers salary structure.

He said the affected states are Benue, Cross River, Brornu, Ekiti, Ogun, Ebonyi, Edo, Kogi, Niger, Zamfara and Sokoto.

The union leader said the affected states governments had have refused to implement the 27.5 per cent Teachers salary structure, Teachers specific Allowance despite repeated demands by the  union.

Meanwhile, the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) Comrade Ifaluyi Osaruyi has directed the union members to ignore such call by the leadership of NUT to join the ongoing strike.

The ASUSS said that the 27.5 per cent Teachers Specific Allowance and Teachers Salary structure TSS was fought for by the union and not NUT.

The union said it would be an aberration, an unlawful and unreasonable action for any teacher in any secondary school to participate in the NUT call strike action.

Beside teachers in Benue State are demanding the implementation and payment of the minimum wage by their state government.

The UT Chairman comrade Godwin Anya said it was regrettable that the state government had not paid the N18,000 minimum wage to teachers in the Benue when other states are paying such minimum wage to their teachers.