Recession: NASU considers payment of workers salary in dollars
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
ABUJA—AS the economic recession bites hard on Nigerians, the leadership of Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has said that if nothing was done to
arrest the free fall of the naira against international currencies, it will demand that the salaries of workers be paid in dollars.
The union also berated state governors who owe workers’ arrears of salaries, accusing them of being extravagant with the people’s resources.
Speaking at the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the union in Abuja yesterday, the National President of NASU, Mr Chris Ani, stated that the issue of earned allowances for staff of universities, particularly NASU members, was still outstanding.
He said: “Apart from the N30 billion released as part payment of the arrears in 2014, nothing has happened again, despite several meetings and negotiations on same.
“Meanwhile, staff of universities who are owed allowances are seriously agitated and unhappy. ‘’Except government acts fast by releasing the needed funds for the payment of the arrears of the allowances, it may be difficult to sustain the present industrial peace in our universities.”