Education Anambra Varsity staff gives management August 14 ultimatum over unpaid salaries
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The non-teaching staff of the Anambra State owned Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) has given the university management up
to Wednesday, August 14 to meet their demands or face indefinite
industrial action by the staff.
The workers, who are members of National Association of Academic
Technologists (NAAT), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU)
and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), under the
Joint Action Committee of Trade Unions (JAC) had earlier issued several
notices of industrial action.
The groups claimed that the university was owing them over N4.6 billion.
Handing down the August 14 deadline in the JAC-COOU Bulletin No.2,
the unions said they had fully notified the Governing Council and
University Management of the actions if their demands were not met on
the said date.
In the bulletin jointly signed by the JAC leader/Chairman, NAAT-COO;
Comrade A.C. Okeke, Chairman, NASU-COOU, Comrade F.O. Nwaibe and
Chairman, SSANU-COOU, Comrade Oddih Obiora, the unions said they have
exhausted all avenues possible to avoid an industrial action but the
school management had remained unappreciative.
“As we prepare to close down the university, the staff unions in the
university have pleaded, dialogued and signed various agreements/MOUs
with the Governing Council. We have also brought all our demands to the
university management and Governing Council of the university and
frowned at the various issues.
“Remember that in our usual way of ‘understanding the financial
predicaments’ of the university, we shelved our intended strike earlier
scheduled for 15th May, 2019, (as in Bulletin No. 1).
“This was to pave way for proper negotiations with the university
authorities but nothing has come out from those negotiations as our
conditions of service keep worsening.
“While the university management are maintaining their stance of
‘there is no money,’ Council are maintaining their snail-speed and
foot-dragging approach to our demands,” he said.
The N4.6 billion owed the unions said, covers Monetization arrears,
Promotion arrears, CONTISS and CONUASS arrears, Earned Allowance
arrears, Non-Remittance of Contributory Pension Fund Deductions/Non
payment of employers (10 per cent) portion of the fund, PAYE deductions
and remittance, Non-remittance of National Housing Fund Contributions
and Non-remittance of union dues/levies after deduction.
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