The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and the union has reached an advanced stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The union encouraged its members to remain focused to the end \u201cof the struggle.\u201d The union made this known in a memo titled, \u201cStrike bulletin number 6\u201d, signed by its National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, and made available to all branches of the union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the copy of the memo, Prof. Osodeke noted that the union had a total of five meetings with the representatives of the Federal Government, while two meetings were held with the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The memo read thus, \u201cOur iron-cast resolve has forced the government to sit down and negotiate with us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have had five meetings with the Federal Government team and two meetings with the Minister of Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement is progressing smoothly and has reached an advanced stage. However, we must remain focused to the end of this struggle.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe University Transparency and Accountability Solution has been tested for the third time. So far, the National Information Technology Development Agency has tested UTAS and University Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System, and will start testing the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System by next week. We are undeterred by the antics of some government officials in this respect.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is clear that hunger, misinformation, distortion of facts, intimidation and other sundry acts of arm-twisting have failed to break our resolve to date; they should not break us now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIgnore fake news and divisive information emanating from social media and a section of the press. If in doubt over any issue, contact your chairperson for correct information.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are at the threshold of victory. Let us keep faith with the union. A people united can never be defeated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Newsonline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n