Effects of Academic Staff Union of Universities’ industrial strike action on the facilities and staff of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State

Abstract

ASUU must help the stakeholders achieve the desired education by offering top-notch instruction in the Nigerian university system. Additionally, the Union supports the struggle, just like any other union, to guarantee its members' proper welfare, job security, and facilitation of a favourable work environment. Hence, this study examined the effects of ASUU on the facilities and staff of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye. The Relative Deprivation Theory serves as the theoretical background upon which the study is hinged. The study adopted a survey research method. A total of 36 lecturers were purposively selected across the faculties and colleges of the University. The researcher designed separate research instruments (questionnaires) to collect data from the students and staff of the University. The data was analysed using SPSS, and the data was presented using tables and descriptive analysis. The results revealed that the strike has not improved staff welfare, and academic staff salaries have been reviewed because of the ASUU strike. The study concludes that the government is primarily responsible for the ASUU strike; lecturers rush the course outline, tests, and assignments when the schools resume from the ASUU strike, which makes the government withhold the salaries of academic staff at Olabisi Onabanjo University, and the strike has not lead to government improving academic facilities and service condition in the University. The study recommends that ASUU consider the apathy to education and the effect on the quality of graduates that incessant industrial actions create.