Nust lecturers go on strike with immediate effect

Lecturers at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) have reportedly withdrawn their services with immediate effect following government's failure to pay February salaries.

This is not the first time that the Nust Educators Association (Nusteda), the body representing the lecturers and the university's administration have clashed over unpaid salaries and allowances.

Lecturers will go back to work once they have been paid.

"Academics at Nust refused to donate their wages to the institution. They demand to be paid their dues and will only go back to work once they have been paid," said one source in the know.

Representatives of lecturers are in the process of issuing a notification for strike over bonuses and March salaries.

A two week notification period is required for a strike.

In March last year, Nust academic staff went on strike and abandoned parallel and masters' classes after the university management allegedly failed to pay them for their services.

The defiant lecturers were later dragged to the Ministry of Labour by the university management, in a bid to end the impasse.

After protracted negotiations the university finally bowed to pressure and agreed to pay the lecturers their dues.