They have warned the government to order the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to stop intimidating its members into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) platform when their emoluments have not been secured.
The union is also accusing the government of not keeping faith with the memorandum of settlements signed with the union in 2017.
Osun lecturers protest 16 months unpaid salaries, to down tools
It was gathered that the Osun State College of Education, Ilesa, had been scheduled to start its industrial action on Friday (today).
The Chairman, Osun State College of Education Academic Staff Union, Ilesa, Mr Olusegun Lana, who led other lecturers in a protest march on the college premises on Thursday, said the state government had refused to fulfil its part of the agreement reached with lecturers.
Lana, who is also the chairman of the Council of Academic Staff Unions of Osun State Owned Tertiary Institutions, said the Osun State College of Education, Ila Orangun, would start its strike action on August 7, adding that the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, would commence its strike action on August 8, while the Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, would start on August 15.
Lana said the strike would be total because lecturers could no longer afford transport fares to their workplaces, while members of their families were finding it difficult to feed due to the issue of modulated salaries which had lasted for 34 months.
ASUP poly lecturers suspend 15-day-old strike
Polytechnic lecturers have suspended a nationwide strike they started on November 13 over failure of government to meet their demands.
Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) told a press conference in Bauchi that the decision to suspend the strike came at the group’s 14 conference in Bauchi after it reached an agreement and signed a memorandum of settlement and action.
The union has previously met with officials and ministries of education and labour, alongside the National Salaries and Wages Commission, Budget office of the federation, office of Head of Civil service and office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
“While we are not unaware of the government over the years to willfully renege on agreements of this nature with labour unions including ours, it is the considered view of our union that the contents of this MoS be given a chance of implementation particularly as there is a mechanism for monitoring and evaluation embedded in the MoS.
Source: DailyTrust