The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU on Monday declared 7-day warning strike over their salaries withheld during the 2022 nationwide strike.
The decision to embark on the strike was taken at a joint action committee of the two unions held in Akure, the capital of Ondo State over the weekend, SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim told journalists on Monday.
Ibrahim, who read the communiqué of the meeting to journalists in Abuja said the unions decided to embark on the warning strike as a last resort after several protest letters and other communications with the Federal Government did not yield any result.
The statement added: “If nothing is done by the Federal Government to positively address this situation and respond to our previous letters to them, the members of the two unions may be forced to meet soon to take all lawful and stringent decisions on the matter”.
SSANU and NASU had accused the federal government of failure to pay the withheld salaries despite the order of President Bola Tinubu to pay members of Academic Staff Union of Universities who also participated in the 2022 strike.
SSANU, NASU had issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to pay the withheld salaries about two weeks ago.