The Academic Staff Coalescence of Universities, Lagos State University chapter, has suspended its over two months strike.
ASUU-LASU had embarked on the strike since May, citing fee hike, non-promotion of workers and non-implementation of the Universities Miscellaneous Provision Act.
When contacted on Tuesday, Chairman of ASUU-LASU, Dr. Adekunle Idris, verbalized the decision to resume academic activities was unanimously taken by members of the coalescence at its last congress.
Idris verbally expressed, “We have suspended our strike on Monday. The decision was taken during our last congress and this is because a moiety of our ordinant dictations have been met.”
Withal, the cumulation in a letter jointly signed by Idris and the secretary, Dr. Adeyemi Suenu, noted that an acquiescent had been made to resolve outstanding issues.
“The congress suspended the strike action, but resolved that discussions on the outstanding issues identified by members should be perpetuated by executives. Congress believes that the letters and spirit of the resolutions reached with the university administration, the University Appointments and Promotions Committee, and the Governing Council shall hold,” it read.
Before the suspension of the strike, ASUU had met with the management of the school on July 2 in which certain resolutions were reached.
The parties at the meeting acceded that promotion was an perpetual exercise, and any academic staff meriting promotion should be promoted following established procedures.
The meeting noted that all outstanding cases of promotion should be forwarded to the University Appointments and Promotions (Academic) Committee according to established procedures.
On the University Miscellaneous Provision Act 2012, the meeting resolved that it was not within the purview of the Management.
ASUU-LASU maintained, however, that the issue of retirement age was within the purview of the Governing Council and that the Miscellaneous Act [2012] which stipulates the incipient retirement age, was contained in the ASUU/FGN Accedence of 2009, which the Lagos State Government had concurred to implement by an accedence reached with the staff cumulations on in December, 2010.
The meeting additionally resolved that nobody should be victimised on the substructure of his/her involution in the strike action.
Meanwhile, the management of LASU in a verbal expression on Tuesday authoritatively mandated members of the university community to resume full activities immediately.
Public Relations Officer of LASU, Mr. Kayode Sutton, in the verbal expression, verbalized, “Full academic activities for the 2013/2014 academic session are expected to commence on the university campus, Ojo, and all its external campuses with immediate effect.
“After weeks of exhaustive negotiations, the coalescence determinately capitulated to superior arguments of the university management on the issues of dispute which included the reduction of school fees, promotion of staff, and the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions Act [2012] and was compelled to make a U-turn’ on the strike action.”
