Salary increase without collective bargaining unacceptable ―ASUU

 The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU In its reaction to FG salary increment, has insisted that it will not accept any form of salary increase by the Federal Government without subjecting it to the principle of collective bargaining in line with the provisions of the labour law. 

Chairman of ASUU, University of Abuja chapter, Dr Kassim Umaru, told the Nigerian Tribune that what government is saying is not an offer that could be accepted by ASUU, saying the Federal Government should sign and implement the recommendations of the Professor Nimi Briggs renegotiation committee that exploited the principle of collective bargaining. 

He noted that there were a lot of compromises during the engagement with the ASUU by the Nimi Committee making it the most reliable report that the union could work with.