SSANU Threatens Indefinite Strike

National Vice-President, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Western Zone, Mr Alfred Jimoh, said the union might embark on an indefinite strike if the Federal Government remained adamant to their demands.

Jimoh disclosed this on Monday in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Lagos, shortly after it concluded a one-week warning strike.

NAN reports that the union, on 10 December embarked on a nationwide one-week warning strike, over the non-implementation of an agreement it entered into with the Federal Government in 2009.

“I wish to express delight over the level of compliance displayed by members of the union in universities in the zone and the nation at large.

“It was well mobilised and very effective. We did not see any tangible move on the part of government, apart from a hurried move by the Minister of Labour.

“We have concluded the warning strike today and we expect our members to resume work between today and tomorrow and go about their jobs peacefully, while we await further directives from the executives at the national level,” he said.

Jimoh enjoined government to save the education sector from imminent collapse by ensuring that it keeps to agreement signed with unions.

The association is demanding for the implementation of the “earned allowance,” among others.

He assured that the union would not relent in its struggle to actualise their demands until justice was attained.