The Nationwide Affiliation of Educational Technologists, NAAT, has stated it would start a three-day warning strike on Wednesday over the failure to pay 4 months of withheld salaries as directed by President Bola Tinubu.
The president had dominated in October 2023 that college workers who launched into a protracted strike in 2022 over the then authorities's incapacity to deal with their issues could be paid for 4 months.
Former President Muhammadu Buhari's authorities had invoked the 'No Work, No Pay' coverage, which meant that college workers wouldn’t be paid salaries throughout the interval they have been on strike.
Whereas the members of the Educational Employees Union of Universities have been paid for the 4 months as directed by the President, the members of the NAAT are but to be paid.
In a press release to announce the three-day warning strike signed by its President, Ibeji Nwokoma, NAAT defined that the choice to embark on the warning strike was sanctioned throughout the digital emergency assembly of the union's Nationwide Govt Council.
The assertion learn: “We’re compelled to tell you of the selections of the Nationwide Govt Council of the NAAT on the finish of the digital emergency assembly on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. It was determined {that a} three-day warning strike and an There will likely be on the primary day, ranging from Wednesday March 20 to Friday March 22, 2024, a nationwide protest will likely be undertaken.
“That is to allow the union to additional its demand for the cost of withheld salaries of members of the NAAT as accepted by the Presidency.
“This grew to become essential as a result of unlucky circumstances that led to the cost of 4 months' withheld salaries of members of a sister union and the exclusion of members of ΝΑΛΤ.
“The Minister could want to be aware that regardless of his assertion and assurances on the Excessive Stage Stakeholders Assembly on the Idris Abdulkadir Auditorium, NUC Secretariat on Thursday, January 11, 2024, the disbursement of withheld salaries will likely be throughout the board. and the commerce unions' name for equity, honesty and justice, dated February 16, 2024, to which the Minister's Workplace didn’t see match to reply or acknowledge, and thus far the group has did not ship on its commitments come.
Nwokoma, due to this fact, referred to as on the Federal Authorities to do the needful or be held liable for any disruption to educational actions in universities.
