COEASU Unveils New Working Days For Members Over Salary, Fuel Increase | READ MORE
Faith Ukanwa
Jul 19, 2023
COEASU Unveils New Working Days For Members Over Salary, Fuel Increase | READ MORE
The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, the umbrella body of lecturers in the nation's Colleges of Education, has directed its members nationwide to go to work two days weekly until the Federal Government yields to its demand of a 200 per cent increase in salary.
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The directive was contained in a statement signed by COEASU National President, Dr Smart Olugbeko in Abuja on Wednesday after the Union's extraordinary meeting held on Tuesday.
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According to the statement the reduction of work days became necessary following a 250% increase in petrol pump price.
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ÔÇØThis worsened the inflationary rate on the cost of transportation, food and other essential commodities and impoverished the Nigerian people.
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ÔÇØWorkers, including staff of colleges of education, kept faith with the government and chose to endure the untold hardship thinking it would be only for a while as the government promised to roll out palliative measures.
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ÔÇØAlas! While our capabilities to sustain hope were already exhausted, the price of petrol rose further to N650 per litre.
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ÔÇØNow, the leadership of the union has been inundated by members' complaints that they could no longer go to work as a result of hike in the price of petrol and resultant high cost of transportation,ÔÇØ he said.
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Olugbeko explained that it became inevitable for the union to direct members to go to work only two days weekly.
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He added that an emergency NEC meeting would be convened to ratify the decision to decide the specific days of the week members were to go to work, while calling on the federal government to urgently do the needful as the action of the union against the hardship would have devastating effects on the students.
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