SSANU\u00a0 decries Govt. slow pace in concluding negotiations on new\u00a0 minimum wage<\/p>\n
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News Desk<\/p>\n
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has condemned the slow pace by government in concluding negotiation process on new national minimum wage for workers in the country.<\/p>\n
Mohammed Ibrahim, National President of SSANU said this in a communique issued on Tuesday in Abuja at the 48th Regular National Executive Council, NEC, meeting held in University of Benin, Edo State.<\/p>\n
In a copy of the communiqu\u00e9 was made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, Ibrahim said the \u201cNEC is seriously peeved and irritated by the dodgy and slow pace of government\u201d in concluding the negotiation process.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cost of living has skyrocketed due to hyper-inflation making it near impossible for workers to cope with the current economic situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cNEC, therefore, requests government to comply with the demands of labour and hasten the process of negotiation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should also approve and implement a New National Minimum wage that will be domesticated by both states, local governments and the organised private sector.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf this is not urgently done, SSANU will join forces with other labour unions to shut down the system, \u201dhe said.<\/p>\n
He said NEC also deliberated on the irregular payment of N35,000 wage award to federal civil servants primarily meant to cushion the agonising effects of fuel subsidy removal pending the approval and implementation of a new National minimum wage.<\/p>\n
He, therefore, called on the federal government to immediately resume the payment of the wage award alongside the accrued three months arrears without further delay.<\/p>\n
The national president also called on the federal government to pay the association members\u2019 withheld four months salary arrears.<\/p>\n
\u201cNEC in session deliberated on the matter and unanimously approved a long drawn comprehensive industrial action after concurrence with the Joint Action Committee meeting of SSANU and NASU.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe meeting is scheduled for Thursday 4th July, 2024, if Government fails to pay the four months salary arrears,\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim also said NEC called on government to, as a matter of urgency, reconstitute a new Committee for the renegotiation of the SSANU\/FGN 2009 Agreement as the issue was long overdue.<\/p>\n
He frowned at the non-appointment of educationist and experienced technocrats who could have contributed better to the development of the citadels of learning.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of these universities, especially at the state level, face challenges of course accreditation, while in some cases, staffers languish in abject poverty due to non-payment of salaries for several months.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbia State University workers are being owed 13 months salary arrears while those in Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma are being selectively paid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He urged government to immediately commence aggressive rehabilitation of roads nationwide.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim also said NEC condemned recently the plan by government to borrow from the contributory Pension Funds to fund national infrastructure.<\/p>\n
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