The Federal Government has proposed a 40 per cent earnings increase for participants of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as both facets put together to resume negotiations in Abuja.
According to sources familiar with the improvement, the provide became tabled ahead of a fresh meeting between ASUU leaders and the authorities’s negotiation group led through Yayale Ahmed.
The union reached a consensus at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Sunday, in which branch chairpersons were directed to quick their participants national on the brand new idea.
A NEC member, who spoke on circumstance of anonymity because of restrictions on media engagement all through talks, confirmed that discussions would retain next week.
READ ALSO: ASUU Leaders Meets Today To Decide On Strike Action
“They have proposed a forty in line with cent revenue increment. Branch leaders will return to their chapters to speak this replace. Negotiations with the authorities are ongoing,” the source stated.
ASUU’s one-month ultimatum to the authorities expired remaining Saturday, heightening anxiety throughout public universities over a likely shutdown.
In a bid to prevent some other industrial motion, the government summoned the union to an prolonged meeting in Abuja from Monday to Tuesday, even though each facets stored info beneath wraps due to strict negotiation protocols.
The union has repeatedly accused the government of neglecting vital issues, consisting of the long-delayed renegotiation of the 2009 FG-ASUU agreement, price of unpaid salaries and earned allowances, and launch of funds for college revitalisation.
However, Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa—presently overseas—has insisted that the authorities has addressed ASUU’s issues. Speaking at the State House two weeks in advance, Alausa reaffirmed President Bola Tinubu’s directive that public universities have to now not shut down, stressing that efforts have been ongoing to preserve instructional sports uninterrupted.
“The President has made it clean that he does not need ASUU to go on strike. We have met nearly all their demands and are again on the negotiation table. We will clear up this,” the minister said.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Labour Congress has thrown its weight behind ASUU, caution that it'll interfere if the authorities fails to honour its commitments to the educational union.