ASUU/FG meeting deadlock: FG is inviting chaos -NLC

The Nigeria LabourCongress (NLC), onSunday, warned the Federal Government that its violation of the 2009 agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was an invitation to chaos.In a statement signed by the NLC Head of Information and Public Relations, Comrade Chris Uyot, the congress said lamented the violation of collective agreements mutually entered into with unions by the government, regretting that this was becoming a vogue in the country.Also refering to the non-implementation of the National Minimum Wage by the various levels of government, the NLC said the government was inviting basket of strikes and chaos.It said: 'We note with trepidation that violation of collective agreements mutually entered into between employers of labour and unions, with government leading the culprits, is becoming a vogue in our industrial relation system.'The agreement on the minimum wage and its non-implementation by some state governments, and even the Federal Government, is a case in point. Any employer or government that so violates collective agreements with impunity is only inviting baskets of strikes and social chaos, and if that be the wish of the ruling class, the labour movement is ready for it.'The congress said the rot and decay in Nigeria's tertiary institutions demanded a declaration of a state of emergency in the educational sector and it declared support for ASUU on its decision to fight for the good of the education system.'Thus, we support the perseverance, consistency and patriotism displayed by ASUU and call on students, workers and all Nigerians who mean well for this nation to stand by the union in this defining moment of the struggle for improved standard ofeducation and sustainable human capital in our country,' the statement read.The NLC, therefore, urged the Federal Government to respect the agreement it mutually entered into with ASUU, and desist from plunging the educational system crises, with likely reverberating industrial consequences in other sectors.
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