There are indications that unions in the university system may rise against the Federal Government over alleged exclusion of their members in the 40 per cent pay rise for peculiar allowance and arrears.
The Federal Government had recently approved 40 per cent increase for civil servants in federal ministries, agencies and departments, MDAs, under the Consolidated Public Salary Structure.
But workers in the university sector have kicked against their exclusion, describing the action of government as a recipe for crisis.
But the Federal Government has said there was no cause for alarm, saying unicersity workers were captured in the pay rise.
The government also said it was waiting for the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to conclude its negotiation on Collective Bargaining Agreement, CBA, on the condition of service with its employer, the Ministry of Education, so that it would be transmitted to the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission.
Speaking to Vanguard yesterday, President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, said the idea of denying university workers the salary increment was an invitation to crisis in the university sector..
Comrade Ibrahim accused the government of abandoning the agreement it entered into with the university unions, alleging that the N50 billion Earned Allowances the government promised to include in the 2023 budget had not seen the light of the day as workers were yet to receive any payment on that.
