The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have issued a seven-day warning strike that will begin on March 18, 2024.

Both unions reached the decision after a resolution at the joint action committee meeting, which took place on Thursday and Friday in Akure, Ondo State.

The decision to embark on the mass action, according to both unions, was to demand the payment of four months of their members’ withheld salaries after the 2022 nationwide strike.

SSANU president, Mohammed Ibrahim, made the disclosure while reading the communiqué of the meeting to journalists in Abuja on Monday.

According to him, the warning strike was taken as a last resort after several protest letters and other communications with the federal government failed to result in the payment of the withheld salaries.

He stated “If nothing is done by the Federal Government to positively address this situation and respond to our previous letters to them, the members of the two unions may be forced to meet soon to take all lawful and stringent decisions on the matter.”

Although President Bola Tinubu had directed the payment of the withheld salaries for university workers, SSANU, NASU, and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) stated that they were yet to be paid their salaries for the period.