NASU Tasks FG On Presidential Committee Report

Senior Assistant Secretary-General, Nigeria Union of Teachers (Nut) Lagos Wing, Comrade Mohamadu Braimoh (left) being congratulated after his speech by the Senior Assistant Secretary-General of Nut Fct Wing, Mr Bello Argungu, during the Nut Fct Study Circle Leadership Workshop At Gwagwalada in Abuja on Thursday. With them is the Chairman, Nut Fct Wing, Abuja, Comrade Knabayi Adalooh.

The Non-Academic Staff
Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), has called on the Federal Government to urgently implement the Yayale Ahmed Presidential Committee Report on Harmony in the Health Sector.
A statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by the union’s Secretary General, Comrade Peter Adeyemi said that the release of the report would help address some of the lingering challenges in the health sector and ensure industrial peace.
Adeyemi said that government should pay the arrears of CONHESS 10 skipping without further delay, stressing that in the spirit of collective bargaining, it is given that anyone who freely enters into a collective agreement is bound by the agreement and is under an obligation to implement such agreement.
He said that the Federal Government release of the report would facilitate progress and workers progression in the health sector, adding that the non-release of the report has created disquietedness presently witnessed in the health sector across the country.
The union’s scribe in a similar vein lamented the non-unionisation of employees in the private owned higher educational institutions in the country.
He said that the inaction of government to ensure workers in the privately-owned institutions are allowed to belong to unions is a violation of  section 40 of the Nigeria 1999 constitution (As Amended in 2011) which guarantees the right of every person to form and belong to any trade union or association for the protection of his or her interest.
He stressed that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 1948 (No 87) guarantees the right of freedom of association and the right to organise and ILO convention 1949 (No 98) also guarantees the right to organise and collective bargaining.
The union’s secretary emphasized that even the Nigeria Trade Union Act guarantees the right of recognition of a trade union by an employer, stressing that all attempts made to unionise workers in privately-owned educational institutions, have been scuttled by managements and proprietors of such  institutions.
Adeyemi said that the union would take all necessary administrative and legal actions aimed at unionising potential members of the union in private institutions.
The union also called on government to honour the tenets of the re-negotiated 2009 collective agreement and urged for the release of necessary funds towards the implementation of the agreement. He said that the union has reminded government that the agreement had fallen due for re-negotiation.
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