ASUU-LASU SUSPENDS STRIKE ACTION … Teaching To Fully Commence Immediately. The Academic Staff Union of Universities [LASU Chapter] has suspended its strike action embarked upon since May 2014. The notice of the suspension was communicated through a letter signed by the Union’s Chairman, Dr. Adekunle Idris and the Secretary, Dr. Adeyemi-Suenu. After weeks of exhaustive negotiations, the Union finally accepted the stance of the University Management on the issues of dispute which included, the reduction of School fees, Promotion of Staff and the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions Act [2012] compelling them to rescind their action. It will be recalled that a meeting between LASU Management and the Academic Union, held on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 and was widely reported in the Press as a silver lining to ending the seven weeks strike action but was swiftly countered by a statement from the ASUU Chairman to the contrary, insisting that the strike action continues until their issues were resolved by the Governing Council. The University Governing Council eventually met to deliberate and the decisions taken were communicated to the Union through a letter dated July 11, 2014. It is instructive to note, however, that the Governing Council’s decisions tallies completely with little or no changes to the agreement earlier signed [on 2nd July] with University Management. The union therefore agreed that Lagos State Government had already taken a final decision on the issue of school fee and no further action will be taken. Based on the Council’s decisions, the Academic Union met on Monday, July 14th, 2014 and after extensive deliberations suspended the strike action By this decision, full academic activities for the 2013/2014 academic Session are expected to commence on the University Campus, Ojo, and all its external Campuses with immediate effect.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:50:39 +0000
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