ASUU stages protest as Federal government slashes check off dues

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The Federal Government has released half of November 2022 check-off dues deducted from the salaries of all lecturers of federal universities in the country to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, The PUNCH has learnt.

The PUNCH had exclusively reported how the Ministry of Labour and Employment withheld the check-off dues of the union.

The ministry’s spokesman, Olajide Oshundun, in an interview with The PUNCH said the decision of the government was based on the failure of ASUU to submit its audit reports.

The PUNCH reports that check-off dues are the money deducted from an employee’s pay for membership in a union or an organisation that represents workers in a particular industry.


ASUU warns


Meanwhile, branches of ASUU have concluded congresses organised over the recent happenings between the union and the Federal Government.


Some of the recent happenings include the decision of the government to pay the withheld salaries of lecturers under the aegis of the Congress of Nigerian Universities Academics and threats to deregister ASUU as a trade union

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