{"id":78450,"date":"2025-11-10T05:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78450"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:16:48","slug":"fg-using-no-work-no-pay-to-intimidate-workers-nasu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/10\/fg-using-no-work-no-pay-to-intimidate-workers-nasu\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Using \u2018No Work, No Pay\u2019 to Intimidate Workers -NASU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), has accused the Federal Government of using its \u201cNo Work, No Pay\u201d policy to intimidate and silence workers demanding fair treatment and respect for agreements.<\/p>\n<p>NASU General Secretary, Prince Peters Adeyemi, in a statement, said government officials repeatedly threaten to enforce the policy against unions planning lawful strikes, describing it as an attempt to suppress legitimate struggles.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that strikes are a last resort, often provoked by the government\u2019s failure to honour agreements or pay wages promptly.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyemi said while the Trade Disputes Act allows wage withholding during strikes, it must be applied with due process and fairness.<\/p>\n<p>He faulted government for enforcing \u201cNo Work, No Pay\u201d while ignoring \u201cNo Pay, No Work,\u201d which mandates timely wage payments, calling the practice \u201chypocrisy that undermines social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adeyemi urged the government to strengthen collective bargaining, respect labour laws, and treat workers with dignity to prevent future strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), has accused the Federal Government of using its \u201cNo Work, No Pay\u201d policy to intimidate and silence workers demanding fair treatment and respect for agreements. NASU General Secretary, Prince Peters Adeyemi, in a statement, said government officials repeatedly threaten to enforce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":78451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78450","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78452,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78450\/revisions\/78452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}