FG RECONFIRM ITS DEDICATION TO ADDRESSING UNRESOLVED MATTERS WITH ASUU
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The Federal Government has reconfirmed its dedication to addressing all unresolved matters with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other higher education labor unions via a thorough and organized negotiation approach.
In this regard, it has urged the country’s higher education trade unions to refrain from utilizing strikes as their primary option.
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, revealed this on Wednesday in Abuja during a press briefing regarding the advancements in negotiations between the government and the unions.
As stated by the minister, the Federal Government Tertiary Institutions Expanded Negotiation Committee, chaired by Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, is scheduled to receive ASUU’s counterproposal on Thursday as part of efforts to conclude a new agreement.
“Tomorrow, the Alhaji Yayale Ahmed Federal Government Tertiary Institution Expanded Negotiation Committee will receive that counteroffer from ASUU. I believe the committee has reached out to ASUU and other tertiary institution unions to start giving dates and times when they will meet,” Dr Alausa said.
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He emphasised that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given clear directives that “our children must remain in school”, stressing that the government is determined to avert strikes and restore stability to the nation’s tertiary education system.
“We should do everything humanly possible to avoid strikes. That’s what we’ve been working on behind the scenes. People at the highest level of government have been working intensely to get a robust but affordable response back to our trade unions,” he explained.
The minister acknowledged that numerous matters presently under discussion predate the Tinubu administration by more than ten years, but confirmed that the current administration has the political resolve to address them permanently.
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