The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) says it will embark on an indefinite strike with effect from Monday, Nov. 13, unless the Federal Government pays its 2016 shortfalls and all outstanding arrears.
The National President of the Union, Mr Usman Dutse gave the strike notice while briefing newsmen on the outcome of ASUP National Executive Council Emergency meeting in Abuja on Monday.
He said the union would sustain the strike until the demands of the union are met or an implementable memorandum of action was agreed on.
” Our union is constrained to lament that our sector is on the verge of collapse and needs all the emergency attention it urgently deserves .”
He said the union had engaged government on the poor state of the polytechnics, adding that government had set up a committee that produced a report but nothing was done about it.
He said that in 2014, N6.5…
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