FG stops University Lecturers’ salary

The Federal Government has invoked the ‘no work,
no pay’ labour rule against striking university
lecturers as their industrial action enters the 93rd
day with no end in sight.
Some of the federal university vice chancellors have
not paid the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) members their August and September
salaries in compliance with the government’s
directive.
Some branch chairmen of ASUU see the
government and vice chancellor’s move as an
attempt to break the rank of
their members,
insisting that their members are resolute on the
ongoing strike.
Some ASUU branch chairmen told
Daily Sun that
text messages were sent to vice chancellors to
apply the ‘no work, no pay’ labour rules to academic
staff on strike and that the decision had affected
the payment of salary of non-academic staff in the
university system.
According to one of the branch chairmen, he and
his exco confronted their university management
over the salary delay and the he showed them the
text message asking them not to pay salary to
ASUU members.
He stressed that the ‘no work, no pay’ labour rule
had never worked, pointing out that ASUU has a
counter-measure, which was ‘no pay, no work,’ and
that the union was not on strike because of salary
increment.