No Work, No Pay: You can’t intimidate ASUU — NLC tells FG

…Asks govt to prevention nationalist acquisition oregon look workers’ wrath

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

ABUJA — The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has condemned the Federal Government’s menace to invoke the “No Work, No Pay” argumentation against striking assemblage lecturers, declaring that specified intimidation volition not resoluteness the situation successful the nation’s nationalist tertiary institutions.

Reacting to the two-week informing onslaught declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), NLC President Comrade Joe Ajaero said the lecturers’ enactment was a morganatic effect to government’s persistent nonaccomplishment to honour agreements voluntarily reached with the union.

the connection reads: “The NLC is profoundly acrophobic by the persistent situation successful Nigeria’s nationalist acquisition system, marked by chronic underfunding and the government’s nonaccomplishment to honour agreements reached with assemblage lecturers and workers. This continued refusal to instrumentality voluntarily signed agreements is undermining nationalist tertiary institutions and eroding assurance successful the system.

“The commencement of the two-week informing onslaught by the ASUU is simply a nonstop effect of the Federal Government’s nonaccomplishment to honour these collectively bargained agreements. The onslaught is not an enactment of defiance but a morganatic effect to years of neglect and unfulfilled promises.

“Rather than engaging successful bully religion to resoluteness the crisis, the authorities has resorted to the unproductive menace of “No Work, No Pay.” This communicative is misleading.

“The breach of declaration lies with the state, not the scholars. Lecturers are consenting to work, but the government’s accordant nonaccomplishment to conscionable its obligations has made it intolerable for them to bash truthful with the dignity and conditions their assemblage deserves. The rule remains clear: No Pay, No Work.

“This conflict transcends an mean concern dispute. It highlights a broader societal injustice — a deliberate weakening of the nationalist acquisition strategy portion the children of the elite be backstage institutions astatine location and abroad.

“The children of workers and the mediocre are near with an underfunded, demoralized system, perpetuating inequality and limiting societal mobility. Quality acquisition indispensable not beryllium a privilege for a fewer but a close for all.

“In airy of this, the Nigeria Labour Congress declares its full solidarity with ASUU and each different unions successful the tertiary acquisition sector.

“We truthful authorities that the Federal Government indispensable instantly acceptable speech its threats and code the halfway issues contained successful the negotiated agreements with ASUU.

“If, aft the two-week informing strike, the authorities remains unresponsive, the NLC volition not basal idly by. The NLC volition convene an exigency gathering with its affiliates successful the tertiary acquisition assemblage to make a broad strategy for further engagement with the government.

“The conflict of ASUU is the conflict of the Nigerian moving class. The combat for nationalist acquisition is simply a combat for Nigeria’s future. The NLC volition nary longer let these unions to basal alone.

“We request that the Federal Government usage this two-week model to contiguous a factual program for the afloat implementation of each agreements.

“The prime is clear: honour the agreements and salvage nationalist education, oregon look the resolute and unified unit of the full Nigerian workforce.”

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