The Congress of College Teachers has recommended President Bola Tinubu to expedite motion on insurance policies to relieve the hardships brought about by means of the removing of the oil subsidy and the floating of the naira.
In a communication exempted nearest the CONUA Nationwide Govt Committee assembly held on the College of Benin from July 12 to fourteen, the affiliation’s Nationwide President, Niyi Sunmonu, recommended the President to announce a commensurate minimal salary to cushion the results of the insurance policies.
The CONUA president additionally emphasised the usefulness of addressing the welfare of its participants, criticising the withholding of 3 and a part months’ wage because of a clash motion undertaken by means of a sister affiliation.
He mentioned, “The NEC reviewed the surrounding of the family and famous the excruciating pains Nigerians had been going via on account of the removing of gas subsidy since Would possibly 29 2023 and the next coverage of floating the naira.
“The union additional notes that President Bola Tinubu has confident the family {that a} layout of measures are being installed playground to relieve the struggling of the crowd.
“We urge the President to expedite motion on the ones measures, in particular the announcement of a commensurate minimal salary and alternative measures that can cushion the impact of this untold sadness being recently skilled by means of the electorate.
“The continued withholding of the three and a half months salary of members of CONUA due to the strike action embarked upon by a sister academic staff union in the Universities is rather unfair. CONUA, as a union, has consistently maintained that it never declared and was not part of the strike action.”
He added that, “What the federal government has carried out used to be to mass in combination those that launched into clash with those that didn’t! That is unjust and is tantamount to punishing the blameless along side the responsible. Thru its unwarranted punishment of CONUA participants, the federal government is inadvertently selling the utility of moves as approach of pursuing staff’ calls for.
“CONUA-NEC therefore notes with apprehension that failure to process and pay these outstanding salaries could throw the universities into serious crises and jeopardize the peace currently being enjoyed.”
The CONUA president often known as at the executive to handle promotion arrears spanning seven years for some instructional workforce.
He famous that arrears of Earned Instructional Allowance for 10 periods have been owed, with bills made just for 2013, 2017, 2019, and 2022.
He additional said, “It used to be came upon that once the cost of the 4 months (March, April, Would possibly, and June 2022) salaries out of the seven and a part months of pay withheld by means of the federal government on account of the clash motion embarked upon by means of the alternative union used to be paid, in the course of the Presidential prerogative, the third-party deductions weren’t exempted and up until now they’ve now not. Data on its whereabouts and when it might be exempted used to be now not supplied by means of the Federal Executive.
“The NEC is tough, unequivocally, that the companies of presidency concerned be directed straight away to let go those third-party remittances, with out additional extend.
“The 2014 Pension Office used to be meant to prevent the shame and distress of pensioners who characteristically had issues of getting their pension entitlements years nearest leaving.
“Retirees under the 2014 act therefore looked forward to timeous payment of their entitlements upon the conclusion of necessary documentation. The FG has failed to pay pension entitlements for over one year after retirement.”
Sunmonu often known as at the Minister of Schooling to facilitate the inclusion of CONUA in all TETFUND methods and committee compositions involving instructional unions, describing the existing status as discriminatory.
The union additionally drew the eye of the Ministers of Schooling in addition to Labour and Act to the remuneration of teachers, which has remained stagnant since 2009 regardless of the stable be on one?s feet in the price of dwelling.
Life criticising the new hike in electrical energy price lists, CONUA argued that universities must be granted particular condition relating to those price lists as a result of they don’t seem to be income-generating establishments. Within the shorten time period, and in the longer term, the Federal Executive must paintings with related college sections to generate electrical energy.
CONUA additionally condemned the Federal Executive’s proposal handy over universities to buyers, noting that the travel would cripple the colleges.