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Aremu: Government’s Agreement With ASUU Must Be Enforced And Respected

DG, Michael Imodu National Institute for Labour Studies, Ilorin, Issa Aremu, discussed on the Morning show, the ongoing ASUU strike, stating that the Federal Government must learn to respect and enforce the agreement made with the union.

He said, “Agreement must be respected and it must be enforceable.

“Agreement is collective to the extent that both the employers and the workers through their unions agree after they must have looked at all the factors that inform negotiation.”

In Aremu’s words “Unions have the right to protest, to draw attention to enforcements of agreement and if they don’t listen, employers don’t listen, unions also have the right to you know use their power of strike as contained in our labour laws.”

However, he said the strike has carried on for too long, a legacy strike that has borne no positive result. Thus, he emphasized the need for a paradigm shift in the educational sector, one in which agreements are well respected and enforced.

He said, “There’s a limit to which you also use the power of the strike in a way that it should not be too dysfunctional, so what I’m trying to say is I think we need a paradigm shift and the paradigm shift will be that we should return to the culture of collective bargaining in good fate, mutual respect between the government officials as well as the academic staff union.”

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