ASUU Meets To Review 6-month-old Industrial Action

ASUU Meets To Review 6-month-old Industrial Action

 

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is meeting to review its six-month-old strike.

 

Sunday’s meeting started in the evening and the union, which has been involved in a protracted industrial dispute, is expected to make a decision about the strike.

 

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Despite several meetings between the Federal Government and members of the union, ASUU has not backed down on its demands.

 

Two weeks ago, a meeting between the government and ASUU ended in a deadlock. The varsity teachers met with the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee at the National University Commission in Abuja.

 

While they were hopeful of a positive outcome, a senior member of the union disclosed that the Briggs renegotiation committee did not come up with a new offer.

 

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The source, who pleaded anonymity, claimed that the committee pleaded with ASUU to suspend the industrial action, promising that their concerns will be included in the 2023 budget. That meeting lasted about three hours.

 

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