ASUU STRIKE: FG STOPS UNIVERSITY LECTURERS' SALARY

SOURCE: DAILY SUN
The Federal Government has invoked the 'no work, no pay' labour rule against striking university lecturers as their industrial action
enters the 93rd day with no end in sight.
Some of the federal university vice chancellors have not paid the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) members their August and September salaries in compliance with the government's directive. Some branch chairmen of ASUU see the...
government and vice chancellor's
move as an attempt to break the rank of their members, insisting that
their members are resolute on the ongoing strike.
Some ASUU branch chairmen told Daily Sun that text messages were sent
to vice chancellors to apply the 'no work, no pay' labour rules to
academic staff on strike and that the decision had affected the
payment of salary of non-academic staff in the university system.
According to one of the branch chairmen, he and his exco confronted
their university management over the salary delay and the he showed
them the text message asking them not to pay salary to ASUU members.
He stressed that the 'no work, no pay' labour rule had never worked,
pointing out that ASUU has a counter-measure, which was 'no pay, no
work,' and that the union was not on strike because of salary
increment.
Sources stated that at the ASUU Ibadan zonal meeting held at the
University of Lagos, the Vice Chancellor, Prof Rahmon Bello, tried in
vain to defend the delay of September salary.
Also, the ASUU chairman, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta,
Dr. Biodun Badmus, told Daily Sun that the vice chancellor got text
messages not to pay salaries and revealed that the university had not
received August salary from government.
His words: "Any vice chancellor that has paid August salary did so
using the university's Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). We are not
bothered about the salary issue, because at the end of the day, they
will still pay us."
Meanwhile, the union has faulted the conduct of Post-UTME examination
by the universities during the strike without the involvement of
academic staff and urged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) to intervene on the issue.