ASUP threatens strike, gives FG 21-day ultimatum
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to meet its outstanding demands in an agreement entered into with the union.
President of ASUP, Shammah Kpanja, said this while addressing newsmen at the end of an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council of the union on Thursday in Abuja.
Kapanja said that the demands by the union include the non-release of a circular to effect the payment of its Peculiar Academic Allowance by the National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission.
He said the Peculiar Academic Allowances paid to academic staff across Polytechnics were a component of the ASUP/FGN 2010 agreement.
The union leader said that, rather than make provisions for payment, the allowances have been removed from the budgeting template, and the Federal Ministry of Education had failed to intervene in definite terms on the subject.
He said the NEC expressed deep concerns over the continued decision by the National Board for Technical Education to outsource the accreditation process for polytechnics in the country despite assurances to desist from such actions.
The union leader said the 25/35 per cent arrears of salary review was yet to be implemented.
