across the country have embarked on an indefinite strike pending the
Federal Government honouring the agreement it entered with the
union in 2009.
The union said it embarked on the strike following its rejection of the
report of a technical committee set up by the Federal Government on
the implementation of the Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary
Scale (CONTISS 15) which the union alleged was approved by the
Federal Government and was been implemented in some institutions
before it was stopped.
At a media briefing jointly addressed by Chairman, Yaba College of
Technology (YCT) chapter of SSANIP, Comrade Olorunmbe Omopariola
and the immediate past National President of the Union, Alhaji Ganiyu
Akinleye, the Union said it was embarking on the industrial action it
suspended after the Federal Government failed to keep its own side of
the agreement they jointly signed in 2013.
Omopariola said the major issue of contention was the
implementation of the CONTISS 15, a policy that has to do with career
movement of staff and payment of appropriated allowances which he
claimed to be in effect in 2009 but the federal government has
reneged since. He alleged that shortly after the suspension of its
industrial action in 2013, the government directed full implementation
of the payment across cadres, as part of the terms agreed upon before
the suspension of the strike.
He however, noted that shortly after the beginning of the
implementation, a directive came to the Rectors of Federal
Polytechnics for the suspension of the implementation of the
payment, this he said was tested by the union forcing the Federal
Government to later withdraw the directive and request for data on the
workforce of each polytechnic to know how the implementation would
be done.
In the process the Federal government, according to Omopariola, set
up two committees, technical and verification committees. The
Verification committee was to verify the claims of each polytechnic.
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