Workers in 67 Research and Allied Institutions in Nigerian Universities and Hospitals have begun strike from midnight Wednesday as threatened.
The Spokesman of the Joint and Allied Institutions Sector Unions, JORAISU, Peters Adeyemi, said that the action has become inevitable because the government has remained adamant about implementing a 10-year-old agreement with the researchers.
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In a related development, the President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Mohammed Haruna, said it will not hesitate to declare an industrial action due to the government’s reluctance to keep a 12-year-old agreement.
The SSANU President was speaking in Abuja at the Union’s Women National Conference on unionism and gender challenges in Nigeria.
The National women leader of SSANU, Agnes Adanna, National President National Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Ladi Bala, and other women labour leaders canvassed for quality education for girls to bridge the gap with boys.
