This was stated in a press statement signed by Comrade Joe Ajaero on Monday. According to the statement the Labour leader has decided to join affiliate unions, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational (NASU) and Associated Institutions and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) in demanding for the immediate payment of the witheld salaries of their members.
He noted that there has been no credible reason or explanation for withholding those salaries in the first place.
We recall this singular act plunged the members into indescribable hardship he stated.
Much worse, it defies logic to try to subject members of these unions to discriminatory treatment.
By so doing government is clearly courting avoidable industrial dispute.
At a time confidence is being restored to the public universities the least government could do is not engineer another strike.
The toll on all the parties will be unacceptably high, especially for students and parents who bear the burden of movement on our dangerous roads.
In light of this, Ajaero urged government to expeditiously pay up the outstandings.
We advise government to not take for granted the maturity of these unions, he added.
