The Joint Action Committee (JAC), an umbrella of Bauchi State owned tertiary institutions has embarked on a two-week warning strike to press home their demands.
Bauchi State Chairman of JAC, AbdulKadir Mohammed who declared the strike starting November 16, 2022, said the strike remains the only option left after avenues for the institutions to settle their grievances with the state government over the years have been exhausted.
“It is on record that we had a series of correspondents, informal contacts, meetings, press conferences, ultimatum and to some extent a strike.
“Unfortunately none of these measures addressed even one out of the several issues at stake,” he said.
He said the action was to press home their demands including payment of outstanding salary arrears to its members.
Mohammed called for the immediate payment of outstanding salaries, resumption of promotion implementation and annual increment.
“We also call for the implementation of the consequential adjustments which do not finalise with organised labour.
“We are also calling on the state government and the general public to understand that our concern is to have our problem solved and we are tired of rhetorics that do not hold water,” he said.
A NAN report listed institutions affected by the strike to include: Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic (ATAP); Aminu Saleh College of Education (ASCOE), College for Legal and Islamic Studies (CLIS), Bauchi State College of Agriculture, as well as Bauchi State College of Education, Kangere.
He called on all well-meaning individuals within and outside the state to intervene in the issue in order to avert breakdown of industrial Harmony in the state’s owned tertiary institutions.
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