With the 8-month industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over, the issues that trailed the strike linger on.
Top on the list is the last minute attempt by the Federal Government to break the ranks of the Academic body.in the university system.
The development is believed to be a way to weaken ASUU which has been on strike since February this year following its protest against unpaid allowances and demand for better funding of the public universities. Speaking on the development, a Port Harcourt based lawyer, Adoyi Abakpa, who opposed the development, said the federal government is not supposed to interfere in union matters, adding that the government is trying to cause a faction.According to him, the Trade Union Act states that once an industrial association is registered in an area of endeavour, there is no need for another association.
“It’s only the existing association already registered that will be recognized. Any other association that comes under that, the ministry of labour will ask the new one to align with the existing one. So where will the factional union operate? In education? And ASUU can’t be proscribed because it’s not a terrorist body. It’s not constitutional to register another union,” he told DAILY POST.
”Those unions have failed to satisfy the precedent conditions provided by the Trade Union Act for the registration of trade unions, it should be withdrawn with immediate effect,” he said.
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