YABA TECH LECTURERS BLAME MANAGEMENT FOR LABOUR CRISIS
October 24 2001
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The recent crisis at the Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech), which led to the closure of the institution for a month, has been attributed to its management's refusal to table the workers' demands before its governing council.
The Secretary of the school's branch of the Senior Staff Association of Tertiary Institutions, Mr. Ademola Oyebanji, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the governing council got to know about the demands only last month. "The management has been shielding us from the governing council and never presented our case to them. We had to make our independent plans to reach the council and that was how they got to know our plight," he said.
The workers, under the auspices of the Senior Staff Association and the Non-Academic Staff Union, embarked on the strike on the day the second semester examination was scheduled to start in September, crippling all activities in the school.
They were demanding the payment of examination administration allowance which the federal government approved for them with effect from January 1999, but which they alleged had not been paid to
them
