By Aluta News
November 09, 2020
FG to merge all unions within the university system under one single entity – NUC
The Federal Government has started the process of bringing all unions within the university system under one single entity.
This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rasheed while speaking at the 2nd Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) in Abuja.
According to him, the polarization of the university system, where each of the Union comes up with their individual demands to the Federal Government was constituting bottlenecks for government to accede to their demands.
Rasheed also attributed the phenomenon to why university education in Nigeria can’t match up to their peers abroad, academically.
According to him, talks were on to convince the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress to invite all the various unions to a round table, to see reasons why they needed to come under one umbrella.
Among the unions expected to key into the new proposal includes the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities NASU, the National Association of Academic Technologists NAAT, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU.
He argued that there was a need for the unions to enter into negotiations with the government with one accord, rather than a segmented approach.