Unions of non-academic staff members of universities have declared that they will be embarking on a nationwide protest starting from Thursday, July 18, 2024, over their withheld four-month salaries.
However, a one-day protest would be held at all branches of the non-academic unions under the arms of the Joint Action Committee on Tuesday July 8,2024.
The workers, under the auspices of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, said their meeting with the government officials had collapsed.
The two unions operating under the auspices of the Joint Action Committee disclosed this in a circular jointly signed by the General Secretary of NASU, Peters Adeyemi, and President of SSANU, Mohammed Ibrahim on Sunday.
The circular directed all branches of the two unions to hold a mandatory general meeting today to sensitise members to the insensitivity of the government to their plights.
According to unions, the actions were necessitated by the failure of the Federal Government to pay their members’ withheld four-month salaries despite several meetings scheduled with the Minister of Education and its Labour counterpart.
In October 2023, President Bola Tinubu ordered the payment of four of the eight months withheld salaries for the academic staff, leaving out the non-teaching staff.
Since the announcement, both SSANU and NASU have kicked against the payments and asked to be included.
However, only the academic staff received the four months’ salaries paid in February.
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