FUTO non-academic staff union rejects 80% salary payment
*Gives ultimatum to mgt
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) in the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) has adopted a unanimous motion rejecting the 80 percent payment of their June 2017 salary by the management of the university.
The union had also given the university authorities a five day ultimatum to complete the payment of their June salaries, saying that it would take the matter to the federal government at the expiration of the ultimatum.
Daily Times gathered that the June salaries of the university staff were slashed by 20 percent after much delay following the shortfall in the allocations of the institution from the federal government.
The union had on Tuesday adopted a motion during her emergency congress held in FUTO rejecting in its entirety the slash in salary by the management.
In its resolution, the association appealed to the FUTO management to source for fund to augment the June salary of its members on or before Monday July 24, 2017, saying that the university has all it takes to augment the staff salaries from its internally generated revenue and other sources of income.
The resolution added that if after Monday its members did not receive bank alert for the completion of their June salary, the union would have no other option than to take the fight to the federal government through whom the shortfall in allocation came.
Addressing journalists after the congress, the chairman of SSANU FUTO branch, Comrade Franklin Martins, expressed surprise that SSAUU members had to be paid 80 percent of the their salary after working for 30 working days.
He said the union would not keep quiet over the slash in their salaries because the staff worked for their money. He insisted that their grievance was not an attack on the management of the institution, but the federal government.
He therefore, stated that another issue the union would draw the attention of the federal government was the disparity in the allocation given to Northern and Southern universities, lamenting that the shortfall seemed to have affected only universities in the southern part of the country.
