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Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, on Tuesday grounded academic and non-academic activities on the campus.
The workers said they were joining the nationwide strike embarked on by their colleagues in other universities.
Our correspondent learnt that the downing of tools followed the federal government’s handling of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, the sharing formula of the N40 billion earned academic allowances and the non-payment of arrears of the new minimum wage.
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The Federal Government on Friday told members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the National Association of Academic Technologists that they could not go ahead with their planned industrial action slated to start by midnight.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said this in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after a meeting he had with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The minister said going ahead with the planned strike would run contrary to the International Labour Organisation’s statute on social dialogue and principles at work.