The non-academic staff of the universities nationwide will tonight end their seven-day morning strike by midnight on Sunday.
The unions are the Joint Action Committee JAC of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions, and the National Association of Academic Technologists of the University.
Speaking on Sunday during a Zoom meeting with journalists, the National President, JAC of SSANU and NASU, Mr Mohammed Ibrahim, explained that all the unions would resume on Monday.
Ibrahim lamented that the government had yet to respond to the unions’ demands.
He said the FG had not paid the non-teaching staff, adding that it would meet with the National Executive Council to decide the next line of action.
JAC of SSANU and NASU had for about a month called the attention of the government to its exclusion from the payment of the withheld salaries, which it commenced payment for the Academic Staff Union of Universities in February.
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Their salaries were withheld when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari invoked a ‘No Work, No Pay policy’ against ASUU, SSANU, NAATS who embarked on a strike that lasted eight months, four months, and five-and-half months respectively in 2022.
NAATS also joined and began its three-day warning strike on Wednesday.
The unions were not happy with the alleged preferential treatment of their Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU counterparts whom the federal government had paid their outstanding four months salaries.