The Federal Government has invoked the ‘no work, no pay’ labour rule
against striking university lecturers as their industrial action enters
the 93rd day with no end in sight.
Some of the federal university
vice chancellors have not paid the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) members their August and September salaries in compliance with
the government’s directive.
Some branch chairmen of ASUU see the
government and vice chancellor’s move as an attempt to break the rank of
their members, insisting that their members are resolute on the ongoing
strike.
Some ASUU branch chairmen told Daily Sun that text
messages were sent to vice chancellors to apply the ‘no work, no pay’
labour rules to academic staff on strike and that the decision had
affected the payment of salary of non-academic staff in the university
system.
According to one of the branch chairmen, he and his exco
confronted their university management over the salary delay and the he
showed them the text message asking them not to pay salary to ASUU
members.
He stressed that the ‘no work, no pay’ labour rule had never
worked, pointing out that ASUU has a counter-measure, which was ‘no
pay, no work,’ and that the union was not on strike because of salary
increment.
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