Kehinde Ayanboade.
Workers of the University of Ibadan comprising the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, under the auspices of the Joint Action Congress(JAC), on Monday commenced a 5-days warning strike.
The warning strike which kick-start this Monday, August 19, followed alleged delay of the Federal Government in addressing the Unions grievances.
According to the unions who in the early hours of Monday shut down the institution gate, explained that the contending issues include payment of earned allowances, University Staff Schools matter, renegotiation of 2019 FGN/Unions agreement, among others.
Chairman, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, University of Ibadan, barrister Wale Akinremi, in a chat with newsmen stressed that one of the contentious areas is the earned Allowances which the non-teaching staff unions claimed they were shortchanged in the sharing formula.
University of Ibadan students, who showed their grievances in a chat with newsmen over the warning strike, called on the federal government to meet with the unions’ demands so as to let sleeping dog lies.
Meanwhile, Joint Action Congress (JAC), has given the Federal Government a five-day ultimatum within which to meet their demands or face an indefinite strike.
