The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology chapter, on Wednesday, issued a ten-day ultimatum to the university administration to pay their August, September and October salaries or face industrial crisis.
The union said it would resort to strike action at the expiration of the ultimatum on November 15, if the university fail to pay.
The academic staff of the university are being owed eleven months cumulatively.
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This decision was contained in a congress resolution jointly signed by the university ASUU chairman, Biodun Olaniran, and Secretary, Toyin Abegunrin, made available to journalists in Ibadan.
The union also threatened to withhold the rain semester results of 2018/2019 academic session until the salaries were paid.
According to the union, they deserve to be paid their salaries without begging for it.
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It was gathered that the vice chancellor of the university, Professor Michael Ologunde, had attributed the non-payment of salaries to non-release of subvention to the institution by the owner states.
ASUU maintained that the welfare of its members remained paramount in its demands, and vowed to do everything possible to prevent them from undeserved economic hardship.
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