THE Joint Action Committee, comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has accused the National Universities Commission, NUC, and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU of conspiring against the non teaching staff in the universities in the disbursement of the recently released N22,127 billion Earned Allowances by the federal government, IgbereTV reports.
Recall that the federal government released the said amount for disbursement to the four universities based unions, ASUU, NASU, SSANU and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT.
THE Joint Action Committee, comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has accused the National Universities Commission, NUC, and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU of conspiring against the non teaching staff in the universities in the disbursement of the recently released N22,127 billion Earned Allowances by the federal government.
Recall that the federal government released the said amount for disbursement to the four universities based unions, ASUU, NASU, SSANU and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT.
In the sharing formula that has generated crisis, ASUU was given 75 per cent of the total sum, leaving 25 percent for the remaining three unions.
The three non teaching staff unions have rejected the sharing formula and have asked the government to reverse it in order not to cause industrial disharmony in the universities.
Meanwhile JAC has accused the Deputy Executive Secretary of NUC of working in cahoot with ASUU to short change the non teaching workers in the universities.
The letter titled, “Re-Request for the Templates in payment of the Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) to the public universities”, read in part: “Please find attached the proposed distribution of the allocated 22,127 billion Naira to the federal universities based on weighted averages of appropriated salaries and wages.
