21/07/24
PRESS RELEASE
VICTORIOUS TD
The Federal Government Says the two days of work declared by the leadership of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU is not in contravention, even though it does not yet have any official nod.
Director of Press, Ministry of Education, Ben Goong made this known in a Phone interview that COEASU has found itself in a situation which is affecting the generality of Nigerians in the public sector and is moving to create a soft-landing for its members to reduce the burden.
Goong who spoke specifically on the two working days per week by COEASU, did not react to the unions demand for 200 percent increase in salaries of its members, Insisting the federal government team has been in meetings with organised Labour on acceptable palliarives to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal.
Also reacting, the Director of Press, Ministry of Labour, Olajide Oshundun, told Us on Phone that COEASU’s Employers, which is the Ministry of Education, would be the ones to determine if the workers action is a violation of their terms of employment.
Oshundun however said the Ministry of Labour has not been communicated with regards to any changes in work schedule and no information implementating ‘no pay, no work’, as it concerns the demand for 200 percent salary increase, before it , that is COEASU, can review its two working days position.
Both Ben Goong and Olajide Oshundun , Maintained that the challenges posed by the hike in Petrol prices is a general problem in the public sector and the Federal government is working out a holistic arrangement to address the situation.
COEASU President, Smart Olugbeko had on Wednesday Directed its members to prepare for two working Days weekly, as a yardstick to mitigate the hardship they incure as a result of hike cost of transportation, food and services.
The union however, resolved to combine the processes with online teaching.
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