The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) hassaid that it welcomes the decision of three trade unions – the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) – to embark on solidaritystrike actionsto compel the Federal Government to honour agreementssigned with the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU).
The National Coordinator of the ERC, Mr. Hassan Soweto said thisin a statement to newsmen recently. Soweto urged the three unions to take this beyond the realm of threats and immediately name a day on which the solidarity strike would take place. He said that the unions should begin “active mobilisation of their rank and file members as well asstudentswho are frustrated at home and concerned Nigerians to come out en-masse for mass protests and demonstrations on this day.”
Adding, the ERC Boss said: “We commend the three unions for taking this decision which we believe is in the best interest of the education sector and the Nation at large. We agree that the ASUU strike has gone on for far too long and the plethora of strikes in the education sector are just too many. Slowlythe entire public education sector is grindingto a halt. For instance, the public polytechnics are equally closed and it will not be too long before the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) follow suit. The Colleges of Education lecturers had recently held a 7-day warning strike. Indeed, the Academic Staff of Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) had to resume the strike, they had suspended in July after three months, due to the insensitivityand insincerity of government to their demands and termsof the suspension of the last strike.”
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