lecturers have issued a 15-day strike notice over delayed salaries barely 40 days after signing a return to work formula.
According to the University Academic Staff Union, the government has failed to honour an agreement signed on November 23 last year.
The agreement ended a 24-day strike that disrupted all 35 public universities and two constituent colleges where the government agreed to a pay rise for lecturers that would be backdated from October.
However, according to Onesmus, the government, and the universities did not honour this agreement in the December salaries.
“We agreed that the new salaries for university lecturers would be implemented in December and that we would also receive arrears for October and November.We saw a circular from the PS directing the universities to prepare to pay the new salaries in December. But again, we went for Christmas without the new salary as was expected.’’
University heads have moreover insisted they are yet to receive funds to effect the pay increase.
This comes as Schools reopen on Monday, January 6.
