Experts in the Education sector have faulted
members of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities over their stand on "no pay no work"
saying the ASUU position is not known in labour
laws and is lacking in logic.
Reacting to the widely publicized statement by the
President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke,
some experts in the education sector have said that
ASUU must understand that work comes before
payment and not the other way round.
Osodeke while reacting to the pronouncement by
the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu,
that the six months withheld salaries of the
lecturers in line with the no-work-no-pay policy of
the Federal Government. Osodeke had in response,
said ASUU would also apply no-pay-no-work.

Executive Director, Education Rights Initiative, Dr
Joseph Udah, who accused the leadership of ASUU
of playing the Ostrich when the future of students is
in jeopardy, said there is no suitable name anybody
can give the money ASUU is asking for.
"You can't call it salary, one of the professors who
spoke to the Tribune Online on condition of
anonymity said, adding that by any definition, salary
is payment for work done. "Anything short of that is
fraudulent and amounts to primitive accumulation".
On ASUU's position that they can make up for the
lost period, Udah said this was less than dignifying.
He explained that all public universities lost a full
academic year to the strike in 2020 before the
current industrial action that commenced on
February 14, 2022, and ASUU never recovered it.

"In the next one month, the public universities will
again lose another academic calendar".
That the Nation has "lost irreversible two years of
its academic calendar is a fact we must all contend
with. In last the two years, no student in any public
university has participated in the National Youth
Service Corps scheme due to ASUU strikes. The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Jamb,
has had a backlog of admissions for three years and
we are still counting.
"We want Nigerians to understand that this is what
government has been going through in the hands of
ASU, lying blatantly and wanting everyone to
believe them,", one of the analysts maintained.
We call on all Nigerians to understand that the
action of the government on no work, and no
payment is strictly within the law and that the
position of ASU is not only misleading but lacking
in law and logic.

A columnist, Farooq A. Kperogi, a Nigerian-
American professor, also said he had supported
ASUU and its mission to salvage the Nigerian
university system from total decay, acknowledging
that was it for the doggedness and often painful
sacrifices of its members, there would not be a
university system to speak of today.
"But I think ASUU is now stepping outside the
bounds of reason and fairness by insisting that it
must always be paid for the period it's on strike. In
doing so, it is proclaiming to be above the law.
"The continuation of this strike is no longer justified.
It's now cruelty, hostage taking, and emotional
blackmail rolled into one. I hope enough ASUU
members realize this and prevail on each other to
call this strike off in the interest of students-and
ASU's own reputational capital.
"It would be compassionate if the government
would pay ASU members for the period they have
been on strike, but the government has no legal
obligation to do so. Section 43 of the Trade
Disputes Act is unequivocal in insisting that striking workers are not entitled to their habitual
remunerations for the period that they cease to
work" Kperogi stated.
Most stakeholders are beginning to question the
involvement of ASUU in matters of Infrastructural
development which is the responsibility of the
Management of universities and not a trade union.
The primary responsibility of a Trade Union is the
well-being of its members and not infrastructural
development.
On Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information
System (IPPIS), a professor in one of the tertiary
institutions who does want her name in print said
since all other staff have accepted the IPPIS, it
would amount to the tyranny of a minority over the
majority of workers if government accepts
Universities Transparency and Accountability
Solution (UTAS).Once you do that every other is at
liberty to come up with its payment platform.
On Academic earned allowance, the professor said
the scheme was to run for just ten years according
to the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement, during which
all universities would have engaged the best of their
brains in every department over the period,
thereby, solving the problem of excess workload.
"It is not logical to be talking about earned
allowance over twenty years after the agreement".
The professor said; "In summary, ASUU is a busy
body on issues of infrastructural development. On
IPPIS, ASUU is playing the tyranny of a minority on
public servants who are all on IPPIS."


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Students please continue supporting ASUU.

They mean well for you.

Even if it takes 3 years for this issue to be resolved, know it would be in your best interest ultimately.

What is 3 years of your life to invest in your future?

rusher14:
Students please continue supporting ASUU.

They mean well for you.

Even if it takes 3 years for this issue to be resolved, know it would be in your best interest ultimately.

they don’t mean well for those students or nobody you dumbo nobody

Hndrrxxx:
they don’t mean well for those students or nobody you dumbo nobody

The students don't understand.

ASUU is trying to make sure everything is perfect before resuming.

Won't be too long now.

rusher14:


The students don't understand.

ASUU is trying to make sure everything is perfect before resuming.

Won't be too long now.

lol seems you are their spokesperson or something

Hndrrxxx:
lol seems you are their spokesperson or something

I'm only looking out for the best interest of the students.

Hndrrxxx:
they don’t mean well for those students or nobody you dumbo nobody

Sarcasm

This looks absurd… totally absurd.

ASUU Is almost loosing it. I will suggest they temporarily call off the strike like the other union(s) have done for say 2 or 3 months to evaluate government act and implementation of what has been collectively agreed on. During this period temporarily call off they can insist on their salaries been paid but ASUU not calling off the strike today/tomorrow because of the salary is very selfish of the union regardless of ASUU saying their members did research and communing service and that teaching isn't the main work for lecturer.

From the look of things ASUU is weaponising strike as an instrument of warfare and the empathy which the union has enjoyed from student, parents and Nigerians is fast fading off. ASUU wants their salaries but who then will compensate the students? For waste of an academic session, for waste of 6months rent from 12 calender month (for off campus student), for the student who can no longer go for Nysc because of age limitation, for the mental stress student have gone through.

While I advise FG to pay lecturers ("salary" for the strike period) on compassionate ground it would however be very selfish for ASUU not to call off the strike because of same issue.

brightest5050:
ASUU Is almost loosing it. I will suggest they temporarily call off the strike like the other union(s) have done for say 2 or 3 months to evaluate government act and implementation of what has been collectively agreed on. During this period temporarily call off they can insist on their salaries been paid but ASUU not calling off the strike today/tomorrow because of the salary is very selfish of the union regardless of ASUU saying their members did research and communing service and that teaching isn't the main work for lecturer.

From the look of things ASUU is weaponising strike as an instrument of warfare and the empathy which the union has enjoyed from student, parents and Nigerians is fast fading off. ASUU wants their salaries but who then will compensate the students? For waste of an academic session, for waste of 6months rent from 12 calender month (for off campus student), for the student who can no longer go for Nysc because of age limitation, for the mental stress student have gone through.

While I advise FG to pay lecturers ("salary" for the strike period) on compassionate ground it would however be very selfish for ASUU not to call off the strike because of same issue.

word up son, word!

Cc: Hndrrxxx

FG is at fault here , “no work no pay policy” is only invoked when a union has been on strike for 90days consecutively without going to work. The three months is paid , if strike enters the fourth month then “no work no pay policy” can be enforced.
Across board the FG is owing all workers in the university.