LATEST ASUU NEWS.SEPTEMBER 2011. ASUU, Labour Mobilise For Indefinite Strike.

This is to inform the general public that ASUU, Labour Mobilise For Indefinite Strike.this is the latest news we are recieveing for the month of september 2011. THE Academic Staff Union of Universities aka
(ASUU)
is, once again, mobilising and planning for all lecturers to embark on an indefinite strike action for some reasons that you'll soon find out.
The main gripe is the failure of the National Assembly to pass into law the voluntary retirement of professors atthe maximum age of 70, rather than the current 65.
This all started as the Ebonyi State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) announce to the government of its plans to call workers and lecturers out on an heavy strike on Tuesday the
06/09/2011.
The union stats that if the federal goverment failed to give heed and super attention to its seven-day ultimatum to implement the N18.000 minimum wage in the state.
The workers are currently unhappy and sad at the federal government’s decision to continue paying its members’ salaries based on the old plan,of which there's a new structure that promise better things.
They(ASUU) said that, in the event that the conditions it pronounced out in its warning to the federal and state government on August 29, 2011 were not treated satisfactorily to their own accord, the ASUU body would have no other alternative than to embark on a statewide indefinite industrial action even as it enjoined “government to take urgent steps towards defraying the 67 months of 142 percent increase in Pension arrears owed retired Civil and Public
servants in Ebonyi State.”
Changes to the retirement age for University lecturers and other contentious issues were agreed upon during negotiations following a prolonged strike that paralysed theentire university system for six months, two years ago.
The non-implementation of the retirement clause has undermined the stability of universities, with valuable senior academic staff and lecturers being lossed to institutions at age 65, which contributes to brain drain in an academic system that is in short of lecturers.
Also,At a recent press conference, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) president,
Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, also stated that its national executive had decided to call out its members on industrial action if the retirement bill was not passed into law within the shortest possible available time.
The sudden announcement has jolted officials of the federal government and leaders of the National Assembly into action. They have been frantically trying to prevent the strike action, whose consequences would further add problems affecting the Nigeria universities.
The president has been reported to state that the government shove meet with leaders of the National Assembly and urged them to fast-track the bill’s enactment. The presidency has also instructed the Minister of Education and the executive secretary of the National Commission of Universities (NUC) to meet with the ASUU leadership and discourage them from going on with their strike.
The ASUU president had warned that the national members of ASUU are not willing to wait indefinitely for a bill that ought to have been passed two years ago. .
The national executive council of the body met recently at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, to assess the state of universities since the suspension of the union’s industrial action two years ago.
With this declared and nationally announced,school aspirants and the FINAL year students are praying that it further don't compound the problems on ground now.because this treat of ASUU going to strike doesn't look jokey.
Well,the federal goverment are trying their best to see to it that their demands and aim is to be meet before their deadlines,before they move to a strike that we don't know it's lasting power.the last strike lasted six good months,seeing this,the federal government don't know how long this forthcoming one Might probably last. Latest nigeria universitieis news.september 2011.