Members of the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU), The Polytechnic Ibadan, chapter on Tuesday said that they have suspended the three-week-old strike they embarked upon over the non payment of their 8-month salary arrears.
The union, DAILY POST recalls, had on Wednesday August 8, declared an indefinite strike due to the failure of the Oyo state government to offset their salary arrears.
But, NASU Chairman, The Polytechnic Ibadan chapter, Comrade Ibrahim Akande, who confirmed the suspension of the strike via a statement sent to DAILY POST Tuesday morning, explained that the strike was suspended in order to give room for the management of the institution to admit new students for the 2018/2019 academic session.
Akande said another reason the strike was suspended was because the governing council of the institution has promised to meet the government on how the arrears can be cleared.
He said, “We have suspended the strike. The strike started on Wednesday 8th August, 2018. After much deliberations, the leadership of the union appealed to the congress to allow the management to admit students for the 2018/2019 admission exercise, which we believe the process would be done within two months.
“We suspended the strike on Monday in order to allow the management to generate more fund from the school fees and to allow the management admit students for the 2018/2019 academic session.
“The strike was suspended at the congress on Monday while I directed members to resume work in their various offices across the campus on today, Tuesday 28th August, 2018. This will allow peace to reign in our various offices.
“The governing council of the institution had pleaded with us and that is one of the reasons we suspended the strike while we implore the governing council to go back to the government and request for bailout to defray the 8 months salary arrears.
“We resolved that we will not collect the 8-month salary arrears in piecemeal. We also resolved at the congress that we will wait till November 1st before another action would be taken after which may or may not guarantee the peaceful co-existence on campus.
“We strongly believe that the governing council will understand the union plight.”
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