The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) declared on Monday their decision to embark on a seven-day warning strike, reportedly set to commence on Monday 18, March 2024. This decision was reached in a Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting of the 2 unions as part of efforts to pressurize the Federal Government (FG) to pay the four months withheld salaries of their members, following the previous administration’s ‘No Work, No Pay’ policy over their 2022 nationwide strike.
Speaking on this recent development, the SSANU President, Mohammaed Ibrahim said, “Clearly, our organs and based on our constitution, will work with the provisions and that by Monday (today), we said our members should go back advertise for meetings, and then by Tuesday, they are supposed to meet in all the branches and Wednesday, they are supposed to return the feedbacks of the sensitization.
“And then JAC leadership, made up of the national officers of the 2 unions, NASU and SSANU will meet in Abuja by the weekend to declare the strike which will start on Monday, the 18th of March 2024, which will last seven days.
“If government decides to do the needful and listens carefully, then leaders will meet to reveal the situation that is opposition.”