UNICROSS ASUU Demands For Regular Payment Of Salary, End to TETFUND Misuse

From Ene Asuquo,Calabar 

The University of Cross River State branch of Academic Staff of Universities Union (ASUU) has demanded for regular salary payment.

The union has also demanded for TETFUND monies to be used strictly for research and academic development, in line with the TETFUND Act.

Those were the demands of the  union leadership during a solidarity rally for National leadership of ASUU which took place at UNICROSS main campus yesterday in  Calabar.

Speaking on the issue, Chairman of  ASUU- UNICROSS branch, Patrick Ushie,  stated that in as much as they are in solidarity with their members at the national level who are said to be maltreated by the federal government, back home, the union is  calling for regular payment of salaries and respect for TETFUND Act.

The Union calls for immediate signing and implementation of the draft renegotiated 2009 agreement as well as its domestication and implementation by respective visitors of state-owned universities.

The union also demanded payment of promotion arrears, implementation of mainstreamed EAA in all lecturers’ salaries, removal of threats to university autonomy and academic freedom.

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The  chairman called for Review of the NUC Act to accommodate some of the lapses, end to the victimization of ASUU members in Kogi State University (now Prince Abubakar Audu University), Lagos State University and Federal University of Technology, Owerri, and the domestication of the 70-years retirement age policy

They demanded regularization of retirement benefits and payment of Earned Academic Allowances at ABSU and EBSU.

“We re-echo these demands in the conviction that solidarity is not about pretending our situations are 
identical but is about standing together so that progress anywhere becomes progress everywhere. 

“As the adage states: One hand washes the other and together they wash the face”. ASUU branch chairman maintained.