Strike: FG may drag ASUU to court if reconciliation fails – Ngige

<h4><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">Nigerian minister of labor and employment&comma; Chris Ngige has stated that FG might take ASUU to court if the process to resolve the strike fails&period;<&sol;span><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;23496" style&equals;"width&colon; 1290px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-23496" class&equals;"wp-image-23496 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thedailypage&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;Dy02nMtWoAAGuZ&lowbar;-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"FG may drag ASUU to court" width&equals;"1280" height&equals;"720" &sol;><p id&equals;"caption-attachment-23496" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">FG may drag ASUU to court<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">This was made known to the public by Chris Ngige while speaking in an interview with Channels Television&comma; on Thursday&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">When asked what the FG will do if the Academic Staff Union of Universities fails to agree with FG&&num;8217&semi;s proposal&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">He said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What is happening now is we have given the Nimi Briggs committee six weeks&period; We are waiting for their report&period; The minister of education has to transmit it and say this is what we have agreed&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He will also transmit to the presidential committee on salaries&period; The six-week period ends this Friday and I’m calling everybody up by next week&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The law says we can go to the industrial arbitration panel&comma; which is where I’m supposed to refer this matter to if reconciliation fails&comma; or the national industrial court if reconciliation fails&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is a double-barrel thing&period; I will choose the one I want&period; I will refer&period; The law says once conciliation has started at my level&comma; you call off the strike&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">The Daily Page recalls that ASUU had embarked on a one-month warning strike over the non-implementation of an agreement reached with the federal government in 2020&comma; on February 14&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;