NASU Set To Resume Strike

The members of Non-
Academic Staff Union (NASU) of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education across the country are set to resume their eight-month long suspended strike, following the Federal Gover-nment’s refusal to implement agreements reached with the union.
The General Secretary of the union, Comrade Peters Adeyemi, gave this hint to newsmen after the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Ilorin, Kwara State, recently.
Adeyemi lamented that government had not taken any concrete action to resolve the issues that led to the union’s strike 10 weeks after the suspension of the industrial action.
The union’s scribe said the strike was suspended in order to give the government a 90-day moratorium to enable it resolve the issues of the industrial dispute, but regretted that nothing has happened since then.
He said members of the union were disturbed by the retrogressive action of government, stressing that members of the union across the Polytechnics and Colleges of Education in the country might be forced to resume their strike after the moratorium of 90-days  expires.
He disclosed that the union had written to government on the need to resolve the Labour issues in the Polytechnics and Colleges of Education.
He said the union’s NEC would meet to take position on the way forward in consultation with its members and other unions involved in the industrial dispute.
The union said it was imperative for the federal government to act speedily in order to avert looming nationwide industrial action in the nation’s Polytechnics and Colleges of Education.
Adeyemi emphasised that the decision to resume strike would be jointly taken by all the unions in these institutions, stressing that it is not a struggle of NASU alone as there are other unions involved in the struggle for the better welfare of workers in these institutions.
It would be recalled that the eight-mouth strike embarked upon by the workers in Polytechnic and colleges of Education was suspended on July 23, this year following the intervention by the minister of Education, Malam Ibrabim Shekarau.