{"id":1146,"date":"2023-03-31T15:35:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:39:05","slug":"just-in-asuu-declares-total-indefinite-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/31\/just-in-asuu-declares-total-indefinite-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Just In: Taraba State University ASUU Declares Total, Indefinite Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Taraba State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared a total, comprehensive, and indefinite strike action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This comes after the ASUU national gave the state branch permission to go on strike in order to press its demands, and the state government refuted claims that it owed workers salaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following a congress meeting, the union insists that the reason for their strike is the government\u2019s failure to pay earned academic allowances, promotion arrears, fractional salary payment to staff, and an unresolved staff pension and gratuity scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr Samuel Shitaa, the Taraba State University ASUU Chairman, stated that other reasons for the strike include non-implementation of agreements and the institution\u2019s perimeter fencing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In response to the strike, the state government, through Commissioner for Tertiary Education Edward Baraya, stated over the phone that the union had not communicated their action to the state government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He questioned why ASUU would make such a decision when the current administration is doing everything it can to address the issues before leaving office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a press statement, the special adviser to the governor on media and publicity, Bala Dan-Abu, said the outgoing governor owes no worker salaries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taraba State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared a total, comprehensive, and indefinite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}