Prof. Nimi Briggs Re-Negotiation Committee’s Report Is An Insult On The Non-Teaching Unions
Prof. Nimi Briggs Re-Negotiation Committee’s Report Is An Insult On The Non-Teaching Unions
We, the members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko Branch are condemning vehemently any tactics of divide and rule that the Federal Government and Prof Nimi Briggs led Re-negotiation Committee may want to deploy to decimate the Non-Teaching Unions on the on-going Re-negotiation of 2009 FGN/Unions Agreement. We shall resist any preferential treatment which may be given to any University Based Union(s).
It is an insult that a Committee of such magnitude could recommend a salary increment of 180% to the Teaching staff and a meagre 10% to the Non-Teaching staff. What is the rationale for this recommendation?
We can no longer trust this Committee whose membership composition is even one-sided in the first instance. Any disparity in salaries intended to be introduced will cause further damage to the educational sector.
Therefore, the federal government needs to ensure that principle of equality and justice should be adhered to, if actually they are interested in resolving the on-going strike.
Comrade Tayo Ogungbeni,
Chairman, SSANU-AAUA
