KASU lecturers threaten strike action over welfare
http://www.newsportng.com.ng Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Kaduna State University, (KASU) Branch, has resolved to embark on a two-weeks warning strike over issues bothering on welfare.
This was contained in a notification letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellor, KASU Prof. Abdullahi Musa, signed by its Chairman, Dr Peter Adamu and Secretary, Dr Peter Waziri.
The lecturers in the letter explained that the decision was reached at the union’s congress held in Kaduna on Thursday.
They union also explained that the strike was to protest nonpayment of five months salaries from May to September 2022, 60 per cent September 2017 and other withheld salaries of their academic staff.
Other unresolved issues, according to the union, included Earned Academic Allowance from 2018 to date, pension remittances from 2009 to 2019 and Group Life Insurance for deceased academic staff from 2019 to date.
“The warning strike shall be embarked by members in KASU, following approval by the ASUU National Executive Council Meeting, scheduled to hold in the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, between Aug. 2 and Aug. 4, 2024,” the letter said.