ASUU mobilises members for nationwide strike

• Prof. Osodoke expressed concern that the government has neither signed an agreement with the union nor fulfilled its own negotiated terms
  

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may soon go on strike. The union’s president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodoke, confirmed this possibility to SaharaReporters on Thursday.

He stated that the union is currently mobilizing its members in preparation for the strike.

Prof. Osodoke expressed concern that the government has neither signed an agreement with the union nor fulfilled its own negotiated terms.

The union’s National Executive Council will meet soon to decide whether to proceed with the strike and, if so, when it will occur, according to SaharaReporters.

“We are mobilising our members currently as we may possibly embark on strike action but we will meet soon to determine that,” Osodeke said.

“The government has failed to listen to our plights. They even failed to honour agreements or sign newly reached agreements. Since the rumour of the strike action broke out, no one has reached out to us.”

The union is at loggerheads with the government over an agreement reached in 2009, one which has continued to be subjected to different forms of negotiations without a headway.