Federal Government and university workers under the aegis of the Joint Action Committee are currently holding a meeting on the impending strike by the ivory tower workers.
JAC comprises the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions.
The meeting, it was learnt, is holding at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Abuja.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige; SSANU National President, Mohammed Ibrahim; and NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi, are among those attending the meeting.
Non-teaching staff in the nation’s universities had given a notice to embark on a nationwide strike from February 5, 2021 over Federal Government’s handling of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, sharing formula of the N40 billion earned academic allowances and non-payment of arrears of the new minimum wage.
Their other grievances include the non-payment of retirement benefits to former members, non-constitution of visitation panels to universities, poor funding of universities, teaching staff usurping the headship of non-teaching units, among others.
JAC had embarked on a three-day protest over the government’s failure to honour the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the unions on October 20, 2020.