From Jude Owuamanam Jos
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked the Federal Government to finalise all agreements entered with university teachers or risk industrial crisis.
The lecturers decried what they described as the flip-flop disposition of successive governments toward collective bargaining, which has created an atmosphere of distrust.
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In a statement entitled ‘Act Now To Avert The Looming Crisis’ and signed by ASUU President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, the union “frowned at situations where agents of government at the state and federal levels characteristically throw the underlying principles of the agreement overboard and resorted to platitudes and tokenism.”
The release reads in part: “Every major dispute ASUU has had with governments since 2012, when the 2009 Agreement was due for renegotiation, emanated from failure to respect the provisions of the signed document on, conditions of service; funding, university autonomy and academic freedom; and
other matters including the review of the laws governing the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB).
“They pick and choose what aspect(s) of the package to “renegotiate” and implement. They discountenance the morale of intellectual workers and basic requirements for delivering on their mandate of teaching, research and (community) service.”
“For the umpteenth time, ASUU invites all genuine patriots to prevail on Nigeria’s Federal and State Governments to address all lingering
labour issues in the Nigerian University System to avert another looming industrial crisis,” ASUU concluded.
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