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       Yet Again! ASUP to embark on another strike
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 15, 2013, 2:30 am
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       The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics
       (ASUP) announced the decision to suspend
       the nationwide strike on July 16, 2013.
       Unfortunately, it has just been a pause.
       ASUP is gearing for another industrial
       action, which would commence after next
       week, and would be indefinite.The union
       made the appropriate statement on August
       13, 2013, Tuesday during the mass protest
       to "save public education" in Lagos.
       "The suspension of the strike will expire
       next week and up till now government has
       not done any single thing in the agreement,"
       said Chibuzo Asomugha, ASUP's National
       President.After 81 days of inactivity in
       polytechnics across Nigeria, the union
       decided to suspend the strike following the
       level of progress made in negotiations with
       the government.
       ASUP said that it suspended the strike to
       allow the Senate Joint Committee on
       Education to liaise with relevant government
       agencies with a view to tackling the union's
       demands within one month.
       Among ASUP's demands include the need
       for constitution of the Governing Councils of
       Federal Polytechnics; migration of the lower
       cadre to CONTISS 15 salary scale; and the
       "worrisome condition" of state-owned
       polytechnics in the country."Government
       should stop paying lip service to public
       education," said Mr. Asomugha.
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