The Tutorial Workers Union of Universities, the Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigerian Universities, amongst different educational unions, will meet the reconstituted committee on the renegotiation of the 2009 settlement with university-based unions, Saturday PUNCH can affirm.
ASUU’s Nationwide President, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this identified in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja.
Although the ASUU chief didn’t specify the date of the assembly, he famous that the committee would meet within the coming week to deliberate on points.
Early October, the Federal Authorities had introduced the reconstitution of a committee to renegotiate the 2009 agreements between the federal government and varied university-based unions.
The committee acquired a time-frame of three months.
Saturday PUNCH reviews that that is the fourth renegotiation committee arrange by the federal government since 2017, with earlier committees led by Wale Babalakin in 2017, Munzali Jubril in 2020, and Nimi Briggs in 2022.
Recall that in 2020, ASUU launched into a nine-month strike.
The strike, which was referred to as off in December 2020, led to the inauguration of a Federal Authorities committee led by Prof. Munzali Jubril.
In 2021, the Munzali committee working with ASUU got here up with suggestions in a draft settlement.
On June 16, 2022, the Nimi Briggs Committee submitted a draft settlement to the federal government, which it mentioned was a product of collective bargaining.
Following the current ultimatum by ASUU, the Ministry of Training led by former Minister Tahir Mamman unveiled one other committee.
Talking throughout the inauguration, Mamman mentioned, “Within the composition of this essential Committee now we have the Chairman and members of this Committee, who’re exceptionally skilled in each College and different issues. There are officers appointed from different related Ministries, Departments and Businesses to function Advisers or Observers on the Committee will usher in peculiar info and make the work clear.
Talking with our correspondent, Osodeke mentioned, “The Committee hasn’t been dismantled, we’re assembly subsequent week to completely deliberate on issues relating to the agreements. We hope one thing good will come out of it.”
In the meantime, the Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigerian Universities, on Friday mentioned it could meet subsequent week to revisit problems with withheld salaries, wage awards and N50bn earned allowance but to be launched by the Federal Authorities.
The revisiting of among the excellent points will happen on Wednesday subsequent week on the third Quadrennial Nationwide Delegates Convention, NDC, with the theme, “Respecting Collective Bargaining Settlement and Industrial Peace in a Democracy.”
SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, disclosed this whereas briefing journalists in Abuja.
Ibrahim mentioned the convention would provide a singular alternative for the affiliation to reaffirm its dedication to advancing the Nigerian college system.
He mentioned, “Particularly, we’re revisiting the issues of the excellent 3 months’ withheld salaries, the N50bn in earned allowances, arrears of the 25/35 per cent increment, and the wage award.”
He additional mentioned, “The upcoming Nationwide Delegates Convention may also mark the graduation of SSANU’s electoral course of, whereby new management might be elected to steward the affairs of this nice affiliation over the following 4 years.”