We’ve power to unionise secondary, primary school teachers – NUT

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Thursday disclosed that the trade Union Act empowers the body to unionise both secondary and primary school teachers in 

Nigeria.

Addressing journalists  in Abuja, the national president of NUT, Dr Nasir Idris said it was misinterpretation and misleading for the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) to say the Supreme Court empowered them to unionise secondary school teachers.

Although ASUSS is still undergoing registration processes to become a trade union, it is locked in legal battle with the NUT over rights to operate as a parallel union within the basic education system.  

While the battle lingers, NUT claims that ASUSS as a breakaway faction was only seeking relevance and hence cannot stand as registrable trade union because it is unconstitutional for two unions with common interest to exist side by side. 

Represented by the national deputy president of the union, Comrade Kelvin Nwankwo, the NUT president said  it was high time it unequivocally threw light on the deliberate mischief, misinterpretation and falsehood being circulated that the Supreme Court on the 15th January 2021 delivered judgement granting secondary school teachers a new trade union known as Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS).

The umbrella teachers union also carpeted ASUSS led by Samuel Omaji of making hollow, deceptive and false claim to have obtained judgement to unionise secondary school teachers, describing it as reckless, complete falsehood and extraneous to the decisions of the Supreme Court, as well as other relevant Labour laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 

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