The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has given the Federal Government four-week ultimatum to conclude negotiations with all tertiary institutions-based unions over the ongoing warning strike.
This comes as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) kicked over the no-work-no-pay policy introduced by the government, as a form of sanction to members of the union for daring to embark on a nationwide strike.
President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, spoke with labour correspondents on Monday in Abuja, during an interactive session.
The interactive session comes after the meeting between the NLC and leaders of tertiary institutions-based unions at the NLC headquarters in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“We have decided to give the federal government four weeks to conclude all negotiations in this sector. They have started talks with ASUU but the problem in this sector goes beyond ASUU,” he stated.
“That is why we are extending this to four weeks. If after four weeks this negotiation is not concluded, the organs of the NEC will meet and take a nationwide action that all workers in the country, all unions in the country will be involved so that we get to the root of all this.
“The era of signing agreements, negotiations and threatening the unions involved, that era has come to an end.
“The policy, the so-called policy of no work, no pay, will henceforth be no pay, no work. You can’t benefit from an action you instigated. We have discovered that most, 90% of strike actions in this country are caused by failure to obey agreements.”
