The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said yesterday that no university lecturer has been paid since February when the union embarked on its warning strike.
Its President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, accused the Federal Government of using hunger as a tool to impel the lecturers back to work.
He said this while featuring on Channels Sunrise Daily.
On March 27, the government invoked the ‘no work, no pay’ policy in line with Section 43 of the Trade Disputes Act.
Osodeke said the government’s strong-arm tactic would not work.
His words: “Our salaries have been withheld. This is the sixth month our salaries have been withheld.
“They thought that if they hold our salaries for two or three months we will come begging and say ‘please allow us to go back to work.
“But as a union of intellectuals, we have grown beyond that. You can’t use the force of hunger to pull our members back, which is exactly what the government is doing.”
