Ondo Tertiary Institutions Workers Begin Strike January over Unpaid Salaries

Employees at universities and other post-secondary institutions operated by the Ondo State have promised to go on strike on January 1, 2024, in response to claims that their salaries and benefits have not been paid.

This was said in a statement released on Wednesday under the heading “Why we may not resume work in January” by Mr. Dayo Temola, the chairman of the Joint Negotiating Council of the Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa.

Temola, speaking on behalf of other unions in the state’s government-owned higher institutions, claimed that the decision was made last week at the JAC of tertiary institutions in the state conference, which was held at the University of Medical Science in Ondo.

The statement read, “The non-teaching staff of Olusegun Agagu University have vowed not to resume until the government resolved to implement the 2019 minimum wage and pay the wage award of N35,000 as a result of the removal of fuel subsidy.”

In the statement, the unions frowned at the alleged delay in the release of  “subvention to our institution in Ondo State by the present government.

“Based on the above, the JAC of state tertiary Institutions in Ondo State cannot guarantee industrial harmony starting from January 1, 2023.”