As the nationwide ASUU strike continues unabated, it appears the ‘end
of the tunnel’ is still at a distance, as the Federal Government has
invoked the ‘no work, no pay’ labour policy against the protesting
lecturers.
DailyPost has learnt that some members of ASUU from federal
universities are yet to be paid both their August and September
salaries, a situation majority of them said was not unconnected to the
ongoing strike and the directive issued lately by the federal government
to Vice Chancellors to apply the labour rule of ‘’ no work, no pay.’’
Some branch chairmen of the Union had earlier told Daily Sun that
Vice Chancellors of various universities have been asked via text
messages to suspend the payment of salaries to academic staff that are
currently on strike, asserting that the decision was beginning to affect
non-academic staff as well.
An exco member who spoke on the development said he confronted the
university management alongside his other exco members over salary
delays, and were shown some text messages, directing that protesting
lecturers must not be paid their salaries.
The member had stressed that the application of ‘no work no pay’ rule
would be ineffective as the striking lecturers were not on strike
because of salaries.
Relatively, the ASUU chairman, Federal University of Agriculture,
Abeokuta, Dr. Biodun Badmus, had disclosed that the vice chancellor
received some text messages not to pay ASUU members their Salaries, even
though he defended that August salaries were yet to be released to the
school.
He told Daily Sun thus, “Any vice chancellor that has paid August
salary did so using the university’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
We are not bothered about the salary issue, because at the end of the
day, they will still pay us.”
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