The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have declared a 7-day warning strike over federal government’s delay to pay their salaries.
The decision to embark on a warning strike was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions, after a meeting held in Akure at the weekend.
President of SSANU, Mohammed Ibrahim disclosed this while reading the Communiqué of the meeting to journalists in Abuja on Monday.
According to both him, the demand for the payment of their four months of withheld salaries of their members, after the 2022 nationwide strike, have not been met.
Ibrahim noted that the decision to embark on the warning strike was taken as a last resort since several protest letters and other communications with the federal government, did not result in the payment of the withheld salaries.
The development comes on the heels of recent nationwide protests by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over current economic hardship, which had led to skyrocketing costs of living across the country.
