A NATIONWIDE STRIKE

Reff: ASUP DECLARED
A NATIONWIDE STRIKE
FROM 6TH APRIL, 2021.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) has declared a nationwide strike from April 6, 2021 over alleged ‘’culture of neglect by government on issues affecting the technological education sub sector.’’
ASUP President, Anderson U. Ezeibe, reviewed this at the end of the 99th meeting of the National Executive Council of the union at Hassan Usman Polytechnic, Katsina
The issues, according to him, include:
Non- implementation
of ASUP/FG agreement
of 2010,
Non-payment of salaries and arrears of the new minimum wage in some state-owned Polytechnics.
and others.
The union further listed some conditions under which the proposed April 6 industrial action may be called off to include:
*Implementation of the NEEDS Assessment report of 2014.
*Reconstitution of the Governing Councils of Polytechnics.
*Release of Promotional areas in federal Polytechnics, and others.