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Nigeria: Nut Plans Warning Strike, Battles FG Over Salary Structure
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Vanguard (Lagos)
4 June 2008
Posted to the web 4 June 2008
Ola Aja
Lagos
MEMBERS of the Nigeria Union of Teachers from western zones have now drawn a battle line with the Federal Government over the continued delay in the implementation of the Teachers Salary Structure(TSS).
The teachers from nine states of the zone yesterday converged on Teachers' House, Oluyole, Ibadan and complained that the successive governments had dragged the implementation of the salary structure for more than twenty years.
They said, that unlike the failed previous attempts at making the government see the need to implement the scale, they would fight with all means within their reach to say no to the continued derogatory manner the government had been treating the teachers in the country.
At a joint meeting which had representatives from Edo, Delta, Ondo, Kwara, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Lagos and Ekiti States in attendance, they stated that unlike the previous failed attempts at making the government accede to their demand, they would fight the on-going strike to a logical conclusion.
To make good their threat, they called on their members across the country especially from the western states to down tools as from 11th -13th June, 2008 to serve as a warning strike for the government to do something urgent to prevent paralysis of academic activities in both the elementary, secondary schools, colleges and technical schools.
Speaking with newsmen, the Group Chairman, NUT in the zone, Comrade Olukoya Alogba said, "we have been pushed to the wall and when you are pushed to the wall, you have to take laws into your hands. We have taken it as a war. In fact, we are going to take our destiny into our hands. No matter the tactics and intrigues of the government this time around, we are fully prepared for it"
Their proposed strike, according to them, has already received the blessing of the Nigerian Labour Congress(NLC).
They said, "we have convened this briefing to update you with declaration by the NEC of our union of an individual dispute with the Federal Government and the concomitant imminent strike in the shadow. It should be restated that teachers in the Western zone of our union are resolved and determined to the three-day warning strike spanning 11th-13th June, 2008 and will be more than prepared to join with others against the forces of the Federal Government to relegate teaching to the basement of professional obsolescence in the country".
They chronicled how the union had been making futile attempts since 1991 for the implementation of the new salary scale.
Having implemented the University Salary Structure(USS), Medical Salary Structure(HSS), Medical Salary Structure(MSS) and Health Salary Structure(HSS), they described it as grossly unfair of the government to treat teachers as orphans.
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The aggrieved union condemned the slow pace in the implementation of the report of the National Incomes, Salaries, and Wages Commission by the Federal Executive Council(FEC on the (T.S.S).
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