The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has ignored a critical meeting with the Federal Governement to negotiate ways of ending the impasse of the ongoing nationwide strike. The president of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, confirmed that the union will not attend the meeting stating that the union has met and forward a new proposal to the Federal Government for consideration.
Accordingly ASUU union will only honour another meeting after receiving a reply to their proposal, he said. The scheduled meeting was called by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, following the failure of ASUU to get back to the Federal Government after both parties met on August 17, 2017.
Others expected at today’s meeting were; the Ministers of Education and Finance, Mallam Adamu Adamu and Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the Chairman, National Income Salaries, and Wages Commission, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission and the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Ayuba Wabba.
The Union declared an indefinite strike to demand the implementation of agreements it reached with the Federal Government in 2009.
