{"id":60014,"date":"2025-01-27T10:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60014"},"modified":"2025-01-27T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:42:55","slug":"labour-union-threatens-strike-over-welfare-in-unity-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/27\/labour-union-threatens-strike-over-welfare-in-unity-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Union Threatens Strike Over Welfare in Unity Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Academic and operational activities in 110 Federal Government Colleges (unity schools), are at risk of disruption as the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government over unresolved welfare issues.<\/p>\n<p>The union accused the Ministry of Education of neglecting staff welfare concerns for over two years.<\/p>\n<p>Key demands include separating junior and senior secondary schools to create directorate-level positions, paying transport and travel allowances for Federal Education Quality Assurance Service (FEQAS), staff, and reducing excessive medical fees under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).<\/p>\n<p>ASCSN Secretary General Joshua Apebo lamented the ministry&#8217;s refusal to address longstanding issues, including unpaid promotion arrears, displaced education officers\u2019 compensation, and regularization of PTA teachers&#8217; appointments.<\/p>\n<p>The union also called for adherence to scholarship directives for education officers&#8217; children and quarterly meetings with ministry officials.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimatum, dated January 23, 2025, warns of industrial action if no resolution is reached, urging stakeholders to engage the ministry to avert disruptions in unity schools nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Academic and operational activities in 110 Federal Government Colleges (unity schools), are at risk of disruption as the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government over unresolved welfare issues. The union accused the Ministry of Education of neglecting staff welfare concerns for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60016,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60014\/revisions\/60016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}