JAC said having waited for the ultimatum to expire without a positive response from the government, it ordered its members “throughout the country to commence a seven-day warning strike effective Monday, 18th March 2024 in the first instance.”
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JAC blamed the Nigerian government for allowing the matter to degenerate, querying the justification for the payment of the withheld salaries of the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities but decided to leave out their members. At the time, the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari invoked a ‘No Work, No Pay’ policy and withheld the workers’ salaries.the rationale behind the government’s insistence on the “no work, no pay policy,” saying that due process was followed before embarking on the strike that lasted four months. Till the end of his tenure, Mr Buhari never authorised the payment of the workers.announced that his government would pay four months of the withheld salaries to members of ASUU.
The memo addressed to all branch chairpersons of SSANU and NASU reads in part: “The Joint Action Committee of NASU and SSANU has inundated the Federal Government with the need to pay the withheld four months’ salaries of our members in the federal universities and inter-university centres as done for our academic counterparts to no avail.
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