embark on a strike action over government insensitivity to their
earlier demands which are still unresolved.
National President of ASUP, comrade Usman Yusuf Dutse told journalists
in Abuja on Thursday, April 28 2016 that all efforts for the union to
explain the situations they are facing to attract redress has failed.
He said the union is left with no other option than to embark on strike.
Dutse said Polytechnic lecturers ordinary believe in dialogue, which
is why the issues have been lingering for all this while.
According to Dutse, other issues include failure to release white
paper of visitation panels to federal polytechnics; non-implementation
of CONTISS 15 migration for the lower cadres and other academic
allowances; underfunding of the sector and lop-sidedness in funds
interventions by TETFUND.
He also explained that the non- implementation of the report of the
NEEDS assessment of public polytechnics as well as dichotomy between
HND and degree graduates poses grave risk to maintaining industrial
peace in the sector.