The National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, has lamented that after about nine months it reached an agreement with the Federal Government, non of the agreements has been implemented by government.
NAAT has also appealed to the Federal Government to pay the backlog of their six months withheld salaries, as it followed all the necessary due process before embarking on the strike.
Briefing journalists in Abuja, President of NAAT, Comrade Ibeji Nwokoma further urged the government to ensure the payment of the N50 billon promised earned allowance.
According to him, "Unfortunately, none of the items contained in the agreement reached, including those with timelines of three months, have been implemented."
He urged the government to implement the 40 per cent pay rise for its members as was done for civil servants.
Nwokoma said: "NAAT is very concerned with the recent 40% salary increment that has left out members of our union who are Federal Government employees. This we consider as discriminatory, unjust and unfair and an invitation to industrial crisis.
"We therefore call on the government to immediately correct this injustice to members of NAAT by implementing as well as payment of the arrears of 23.5% earlier approved for our members with effect from September, 2022.
"Connected to this. is the approval of N50bn by President Muhammadu Buhari for payment of arrears of Earned Allowance for members of University based Unions which has not been released.
"As technologists, having suspended the strike, for the periods of which we were on strike were academic sessions of 2020/ 2021, 2021/2022 and we have come back to run the practicals and we have graduated students. We have ran the backlogs of this work for which government said it will not pay.
"What is the reason for government to withhold our salary for work which we have done? We are insisting, having embarked on this strike, and having gone back to do the work for the periods we were on strike, we are demanding that government should also pay us.
"We are calling on the present government to pay us the withheld salaries before it exit on May 29."
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