The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, (SSANU), has advised the Federal Government to withdraw the circular directing that workers of the Staff schools should not be captured in the 2022 budget.
The President of SSANU, Mr Mohammed Haruna, gave the advice while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja,
He threatened that the union would embark on industrial action if government refused to heed to the union’s request.
Haruna was reacting to the alleged circular from the Budget Office directing that teachers in Staff Schools should be removed from the Consolidated Salary Scale, CONTISS, in the 2022 budget.
He said that the reopening of the matter that had been decided by the National Industrial Court would affect the industrial harmony being enjoyed in the universities as there a subsisting court judgment in favour of the union .
He said that if the government should go ahead to implement the directive, over 3,000 of its members would be affected, while adding that SSANU would “fight” the development to finish.
SSANU boss accused the government of going contrary to the agreement with the union, even when the court had given a judgment on the matter.
“Well, the issue is that we are also taken aback by the recent negative development we just saw last week that the Federal Government through the budget office, directed that universities should expunge or remove the list of our members who teach in the university demonstration schools.
”This mean that they should not be captured in the CONTISS salary table, while the government is also planning to put them in a different salary table called CONPISS, the consolidated public service salary scale.
“This is a negation of our agreement with government, because those members of ours who are in the university demonstration schools are bonafide members of university staff
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