NASU demands immediate payment of workers’ entitlements

By Victor Ahiuma-Young
ABUJA — The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has demanded the immediate payment of outstanding salaries, promotion arrears, wage awards, pensions, gratuities and other benefits owed to workers and retirees.
NASU President, Dr Makolo Hassan, made the demand during the union’s ongoing National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja, expressing concern over what he described as the denial and delay of workers’ legitimate entitlements.
Hassan said the continued withholding of workers’ benefits was incompatible with the principles of fairness, dignity and social justice.
He said the union would continue to press for the...