Poly Ibadan lecturers set to go on strike 'SSANIP to begin strike Thursday

LECTURERS of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, on the platform of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), have given the Oyo State government a one-week ultimatum to pay their three months salary arrears.They unanimously agreed on the decision during a congress held at the NLT Hall, North campus of the institution, on Monday, adding that failure by the state government to pay their salary arrears of January to March 2011 by the close of work on Monday, March 12, would lead to the resumption of their earlier suspended strike, beginning from Tuesday, March 13.According to the chairman of ASUP, The Polytechnic, Ibadan chapter, Adebayo Philips, 'in the last one month, the government has made promises up to three times and I think it is time to fulfil its promises, taking into consideration the negative effect the strike we are going to embark upon, if it fails to fulfil the promises, will have on the school calendar, as the first semester is scheduled for March 19.'The salary scale ought to have been effected since 2009, but was stalled by the former administration in the state, led by Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, who thereafter approved the payment in April, 2011, with the effectiveness backdated to January same year.Meanwhile, senior staff of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP), the Polytechnic, Ibadan chapter, will, this Thursday, resume their suspended strike if the management of the institution fails to influence the payment of their salary arrears of January to March, 2012.
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