ASUU Insists On Negotiating Salary For Members, Rejects Wage Award

The Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the N35,000 wage award, insisting on negotiating the salary of its members with the Tinubu-led administration

Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the National President of the Union stated this in Ibadan on Thursday at the inauguration of the secretariat of the University of Ibadan (UI) branch of ASUU.

According to him, the union had agreed that whatever was legally sent to members’ accounts should be spent but not to be taken as the negotiated salary.

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“We told them we should negotiate our wage, but they said we are giving you an award of N35,000; we have told them that it is not our own.

“We are still insisting that there has to be negotiated salary,” he said.

He identified the renegotiation of the existing agreement, payment of withheld salaries, earned academic allowance and release of the Needs Assessment Funds as some of the pending issues with the Federal Government.