The Federal Government has invoked the 'no work, no pay' labour rule against striking university lecturers as their industrial action enters the 93rd day with no end in sight.
Some of the federal university Vice Chancellors have not paid the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) members their August and September salaries in compliance with the government's directive.
Some branch chairmen of ASUU see the government and Vice Chancellor's move as an attempt to break the rank of their members, insisting that their members are resolute on the ongoing strike.
Some ASUU branch chairmen told Daily Sun that text messages were sent to Vice Chancellors to apply the 'no work, no pay' labour rules to academic staff on strike and that the decision had affected the payment of salary of non-academic staff in the university system.
As stated by one of the branch chairmen, he and his exco confronted their university management over the salary delay and the he showed them the text message asking them not to pay salary to ASUU members.
He stressed that the 'no work, no pay' labour rule had never worked, pointing out that ASUU has a counter-measure, which was 'no pay, no work', and that the union was not on strike because of salary increment.