ASUP Strike Continues As Poly LecturersAnd FG Meeting Ends In DEADLOCK

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics
(ASUP) are to continue the ongoing
nationwide strike, as the Monday
meeting between polytechnic lecturers
and the Federal Government ended in a stalemate.

It will be recalled that the ASUP
embarked on strike from April 29, July 17,
2013 in the first instance, and resumed
the industrial action in early October,
2013. The lecturers demand better
working conditions, infrastructure
improvement, and ending the
discrimination of polytechnic graduates,
among other things.
The National Publicity Secretary of ASUP,
Clement Chirman, confirmed the deadlock,
adding that the Federal Government’s
delegation was led to the Abuja meeting
by the Minister of Labour, Chukwuemeka
Wogu.