SSANU LASU Chapter Vows to Continue Strike

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Mr. Oseni Saheed, chairman of the Striking Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Lagos State University (LASU), chapter, on Friday vowed that union would continue strike until its demands were met.

He said that the union was dissatisfied with the manner the university’s Governing Council was handling the strike.

The unionist also said that SSANU was not satisfied with some policies introduced by the council.

Hundreds of SSANU members had on Thursday disrupted a meeting of the governing council with LASU workers.

LASU’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities was, however, not represented at the meeting.

Protesting SSANU members had matched from their secretariat to the university’s new auditorium where the meeting was being held chanting protest songs and carrying placards that reflected their feelings.

Saheed said that the striking workers had been denied promotion since 2011.

He said that the governing council had not been responsive, adding that SSANU members could not be part of the meeting because they were not in the right frame of mind.

Saheed also said that the union was unhappy that the council approved an increase in school fees from N25, 000 to N380, 000.

Saheed, however, hailed the state Gov. Babatunde Fashola for calling the union to a meeting last week over the strike.

The Chairman of the council, Mr Bode Augusto, had told the protesters to be calm.

SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), LASU chapters, had been on strike since Sept. 30.

NASU, however, suspended its strike on Dec. 3, following Fashola’s intervention

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