Nigerian university workers have announced a warning strike from Monday, to press the federal government to meet their demands
The one-week strike will last between August 19 to 23.
Non-academic staff of universities had earlier planned for a nationwide protest on July 15 ahead of an indefinite strike over the failure of the federal government to implement its agreements with them.
The agitation is coming few months after the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) suspended their four-months strike.
According to a letter which was signed by the chairman of JAC, Samson Ugwoke, the unions said the contending issues include payment of earned allowances, University Staff Schools matter, renegotiation of 2019 FGN/Unions agreement among others.
The unions had embarked on a nationwide strike on December 4, 2017 following the failure of the government to address their grievances. That strike was suspended in March 2018.
The former Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, had said then that the government would source for N8 billion within five weeks to pay the striking workers.
The minister announced this at a resolution reached at a meeting on March 13, 2018.
But the unions during their protest in 2018 said the delay in the payment of Earned Allowances had become a source of discomfort and agitation by their members and a source of embarrassment for their leaders.
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