Salary deductions: Union not protecting our interest –Teachers

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FILE PHOTO: A teacher in the classroom with students.

The Benue chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS), has accused the union’s National President, Mr Samuel Omaji, of “ignoring arbitrary deductions” from their salaries.

Omaji, aside the national leadership position, has been the ASUSS Chairman in Benue for the past 10 years,

The union members, in a protest letter signed by 106 teachers and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Makurdi, alleged that Omaji had “never kicked against the deductions”.

“We have always complained to the union, and specifically to the National President, but he has always looked the other way, leaving us to our fate,” the letter stated.

NAN reports that the Benue Teaching Service Board (TSB) had, over the years, been accused of series of deductions from teachers’ salaries.

The letter…

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