Three Colleges of Education workers suspend strike in Kwara
Workers at the three Kwara State owned Colleges of Education on Tuesday suspended their six-week industrial action called by Committee of Unions of Tertiary Institutions (CUTI).
CUTI Chairman, Malam Shehu Sanni, announced the suspension of the strike in Ilorin at the end of the congress of the union held at the College of Education, Ilorin.
He said the strike was suspended for three weeks to allow for negotiations between the union and the state government.
The chairman, therefore, directed all members of the three unions under CUTI to return to work immediately.
Sanni said members of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education in Nigeria (SSUCOEN) met to take the decision.
The CUTI chairman said the union decided to suspend the six-week strike due to the intervention of Senator Bukola Saraki and Global Peace Movement.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that CUTI executive had met with the former governor on Saturday, May 16.
Sanni said the Senator appealed to them to go back to work to allow for negotiation and promised that nobody would be victimised as a result of the strike.
He expressed optimism that government would come up with its recommendations at the end of the three weeks the suspension would last.
NAN recalls that CUTI had called its members to embark on the strike on April 7 over eight-point demand by the workers.
The demands were infrastructural decay in the colleges, computation of retirement benefits by 100 per cent CONPCASS/CONTEDISS and migration of officers between CONTISS 1-11.
Others include 65 years retirement age for non teaching staff, the issue of TETFUND and composition of governing council in line with the edict of 2013. (NAN)
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Funmilayo Braithwaite Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners Lucky Omoluwa AGM Professional Services Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union Fulani REO CAKES Rasheed Jimoh Cornelius Adebayo Baruten Adamu Ibrahim Sabi Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye Wahab Kunle Shittu Imodoye Writer’s Enclave Amusement Park Mike Omotosho Mutawali Of Ilorin Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf Zaratu Umar NaAllah Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development Metro Park Ibrahim Taiwo Road Saduki Lafiagi Haruna Olawale Sulaiman March 28 Nupe Eghe Igbinehin Abubakar Baba Bahago Hassan Taiye Salam Kwara State Fish Farmers Association Bamidele Adegoke Ibrahim Bio Apaokagi Raimi Iyanda Monthly Sanitation Exercise Labour Party Babatunde Ishola Babaita United Nigeria Congress Party Salami Adekunle COVID Salman Suleiman Ijagbo Obuh Laduba Wahab Isa Okin Biscuits Simeon Sayomi Agbarere Abdulrasheed Lafia Kwara State Branch Of The National Library Aisha Gobir Oniwasi Agbaye Abdulfatai Ahmed Omotoso Ishola Abdullahi Dan Iya Of Ilorin NURTW Laboratory-to-Product Belgore 11th Galadima JSSCE Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd Mumeen Lah Alaaya Kwasu Kwara Polytechnic Olusegun Adeniyi Danladi Lateef Alagbonsi Seun Bolaji Mamatu Abdullahi JUSUN Adama Isa Popo-Igbonna Abikan

