SSANU, NASU, NAATS end warning strike, resume Monday

• The Joint Action Committee of Nigerian Universities’ Staff Associations plans to end ongoing strikes, resuming work on Monday
• The strikes were prompted by the government’s failure to pay withheld salaries and address union demands despite ongoing negotiations

The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions, and the University’s National Association of Academic Technologists will call off the ongoing seven-day and three-day warning strikes at midnight on Sunday.

For about a month, the JAC of SSANU and NASU had been drawing the government’s attention to its exclusion from the payment of withheld salaries, which it began paying for the Academic Staff Union of Universities in February.

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.

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.

He, however, lamented that the government had yet to respond to the unions’ demands.

Ibrahim 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.

He said in a statement on Sunday, “Consequently, you are hereby informed that the seven-day warning strike shall end at midnight of Sunday, March 24, 2024, and normal work will resume on Monday, March 25, 2024.”