The Educational Right Campaign (ERC) fully welcomes the decisions of three Trade Union of Teachers (NUT), the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE)- to embark on solidarity strike actions to compel the Federal Government to honour agreements signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The ERC urges the three unions to take this beyond the realm of threats and immediately name a day on which the solidarity strike would take place and begin active mobilisation of thier rank and file members as well as students who are frustrated at home and concerned Nigerians to come out en-masse for mass protests and demonstration on this day.We commend the three unions for taking this decision which we believe is in the best interest of the education sector and the Nation at large.We agree that ASUU strike has gone on for far too long and the plethora of strikes in the education sector are just too many.
On Tuesday 8 October,the ASUU strike became 100 days old.Slowly the entire public education sector is grinding to a halt.For instance, the public pyrotechnic are equally closed and it will not be too long before the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) follow suit.The Colleges of Education Lecturers had recently held a 7-day warning strike .Indeed, the Academic Staff of Union of pyrotechnics (ASUP) had to resume the strike , they had suspended in July after three months, due to the insensitivity and insincerity of government to Thier demands and terms of the suspension of the last strike.
A wave of one-day solidarity strikes by the labour movement occupied by mass protests and demonstrations can alter this situation and copel the Federal Government to meet the demands of ASUU, ASUP, COEASU and other unions industrial actions so that the schools dc can resume.
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