AOCOED workers vow to continue strike

The two major unions at the Adeniran Ogunsaya College of Education, Ijanikin, Lagos State, namely; Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union and the Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education have vowed to continue with their ongoing seven-day warning strike which they declared on Monday until all their demands are met by the appropriate authorities.

The workers action is to press home their demands which they argued are necessary for the smooth running of the college.

Leaders of the Unions, Micheal Avosetinyen (COEASU) and Wunmi Ombugadu (SSUCOEN) listed some of these demands to include remittance of all pension deductions made by the management, payment of all outstanding honoraria to members, remittance of co-operative deductions amounting to over N150 million, payment of all outstanding seven months’ salary arrears and commencement of the 2014 promotion exercise.

Other demands according to them include: implementation of 65 years retirement age and non remittance of tax, among others. According to them, they had earlier given the management a week ultimatum and another three days without success before they now resolved to embark on the current strike.

The workers, who embarked on a peaceful demonstration on the first day of the strike, prevented the Provost, Bashorun Olaleke Wasu and the Registrar, Bola Disu and other principal officers from entering the school’s premises.

They told National Mirror that they had endured their suffering in silence with the hope that the state government would keep to its promise of addressing their plight but regretted that all peaceful moves made so far were to no avail.

Reacting, the Provost of the college, Bashorun Olaleke Wasiu described the development as unfortunate one and attributed the problems facing the college to underfunding by the Lagos State Government.

The provost while appealing to the workers to call off the strike promised that the management is doing all within its powers to address their grievances.

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