The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that FG wants to reduce the salary of junior lecturers to less than N90k, and add a little increase to senior lecturers, a reason why they won’t suspend their lingering strike.
Sources in the union, who confided in The Punch correspondent and were privy to the negotiations, explained that ASUU refused to resume further talks because of “a Greek gift.”
The source noted that while there would be a “meagre” increase in the salaries of professors, there would be a deduction in the take home pay of graduate assistants.
“For graduate assistants, the government proposed N1m per annum for starters, while senior graduate assistants will get N1.2m per annum and by the time the necessary deductions will be made in terms of pension, tax and others, some of them may be going home with less than N90,000 monthly.
“At the moment, graduate assistants on step four earn N1,606,380, while they get N133,865.08 as gross monthly salary, and by the time you deduct N3,346.63 National Housing Fund contribution, N10,039.88 as pension and N8,555.83 as tax, the person goes home with N111,922.74.
“For junior professors, the government proposed that a total of N6m per annum, while a professor at bar will be earning N9m yearly. The professors at the bar are the senior professors from step 7 to 10,” the source told The Punch.
Another source, who is a member of ASUU NEC, confirmed the development and also said “Yes, it is true; it is more like they removed money from junior lecturers and added the small change to senior ones.
“Now, with the new proposal, GA at the bar will earn N120,000 per month and when you apply deductions, you can imagine what the net will be.”
Reports have it that the Federal Government’s offer has been rejected by the majority of ASUU members, who had held their zonal congresses.
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