Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Cross River State branch, has demanded regular salary payment.
The union wants TETFund money to be used strictly for research and academic development, in line with the agency’s Act.
The union’s leadership made the demands during a solidarity rally ordered by the national leadership of ASUU, which took place at UNICROSS main campus yesterday in Calabar.
Speaking on the issue, chairman of ASUU- UNICROSS branch, Dr. 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 called for the 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, the implementation of mainstreamed EAA in all lecturers’ salaries, and the removal of threats to university autonomy and academic freedom.
The chairman called for a Review of the NUC Act to accommodate some of the lapses, end the victimisation of ASUU members in Kogi State University (now Prince Abubakar Audu University), Lagos State University and Federal University of Technology, Owerri.
The institution of a Governing Council at the AKSU and the domestication of the 70-year retirement age policy in that institution.
They demanded regularising 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.
