No Pay, No Work: ASUU Orders Members to Down Tools Over Salary Delays
No Pay, No Work: ASUU Orders Members to Down Tools Over Salary Delays
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has instructed its members across all branches nationwide to suspend academic activities in any month where salaries are delayed beyond the third day. The boycott, the union said, will continue until the outstanding salaries are paid.
ASUU explained that the decision to enforce the “no pay, no work” policy stems from the harsh reality that its members cannot continue to work without food, transportation, or the means to meet basic financial obligations.
The President of the union, Professor Christopher Piwuna, disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Nigerian Tribune on Monday night.
He stated that the manner by which the Federal Government is “deliberately frustrating” the smooth operations of the newly-introduced Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) that replaced the rejected Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) informed ASUU to take this work boycott path.
According to him, “FG is punishing university community because we rejected IPPIS platform.
“We strongly believe this position because we can’t understand how other workers who are still under IPPIS get paid promptly while suddenly we that had migrated from the platform are consistently not being paid promptly, again.
Now, we don’t receive our salaries as and when due again and our best explanation to this sudden development is that government is punishing us just because we were out of IPPIS platform.
There is no other way to explain this because we are very sure that if we were to remain within IPPIS, we would have been paid when others are being paid.
“And more so, government has not come out to tell us why our salaries are always being delayed.
“So, the position of the union now and which NEC has already resolved at is that if our salaries are not paid the third day of a new month, we won’t work until we are paid. And we have communicated this to all our branches.
This is simply because the current economic situation is harsh,not just for us, but for many Nigerians as well.
That’s why we continue to urge the government to finalise the renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement, so we can all have clarity on the way forward.
