The Instructional Team of workers Union of Universities, the Senior Team of workers Affiliation of Nigerian Universities, amongst alternative educational unions, will meet the reconstituted committee at the renegotiation of the 2009 pledge with university-based unions, Saturday PUNCH can verify.
ASUU’s Nationwide President, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this recognized in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja.
Regardless that the ASUU chief didn’t specify the while of the assembly, he famous that the committee would meet within the coming age to planned on problems.
Early October, the Federal Govt had introduced the reconstitution of a committee to renegotiate the 2009 guarantees between the federal government and diverse university-based unions.
The committee gained a month body of 3 months.
Saturday PUNCH stories that that is the fourth renegotiation committee arrange by way of the federal government since 2017, with earlier committees led by way of Wale Babalakin in 2017, Munzali Jubril in 2020, and Nimi Briggs in 2022.
Recall that during 2020, ASUU launched into a nine-month crash.
The crash, which was once referred to as off in December 2020, ended in the foundation of a Federal Govt committee led by way of Prof. Munzali Jubril.
In 2021, the Munzali committee running with ASUU got here up with suggestions in a draft pledge.
On June 16, 2022, the Nimi Briggs Committee submitted a draft pledge to the federal government, which it stated was once a made from collective bargaining.
Following the hot warning by way of ASUU, the Ministry of Schooling led by way of former Minister Tahir Mamman unveiled any other committee.
Talking all the way through the foundation, Mamman stated, “Within the composition of this noteceable Committee we’ve got the Chairman and participants of this Committee, who’re exceptionally skilled in each College and alternative issues. There are officers appointed from alternative related Ministries, Branchs and Businesses to grant as Advisers or Witnesses at the Committee will herald atypical knowledge and create the paintings clear.
Talking with our correspondent, Osodeke stated, “The Committee hasn’t been dismantled, we are meeting next week to fully deliberate on matters regarding the agreements. We hope something good will come out of it.”
In the meantime, the Senior Team of workers Affiliation of Nigerian Universities, on Friday stated it could meet later age to revisit problems with withheld salaries, salary awards and N50bn earned allowance but to be exempt by way of the Federal Govt.
The revisiting of one of the crucial remarkable problems will pull playground on Wednesday later age on the third Quadrennial Nationwide Delegates Convention, NDC, with the theme, “Respecting Collective Bargaining Agreement and Industrial Peace in a Democracy.”
SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, disclosed this generation briefing newshounds in Abuja.
Ibrahim stated the convention would trade in a novel alternative for the affiliation to reaffirm its constancy to advancing the Nigerian college gadget.
He stated, “Specifically, we are revisiting the matters of the outstanding 3 months’ withheld salaries, the N50bn in earned allowances, arrears of the 25/35 per cent increment, and the wage award.”
He additional stated, “The upcoming National Delegates Conference will also mark the commencement of SSANU’s electoral process, wherein new leadership will be elected to steward the affairs of this great association over the next four years.”