Makerere University guild president Lubega Nsamba has threatened to tak action if management doesn’t resolve the staff salary disputes that have forced them into a sit-down strike.
The purpose of this letter is to implore you, top management and the joint staff associations to embrace alternatives to solve the ongoing standoff that do not affect the students who pay full fees to receive services that they are now being denied. This matter should be handled as soon as possible before the students lose their patience, writes Nsamba in a letter dated October 11, 2024.
Makerere’s guild president says management has always advised students leaders to embrace dialogue and that they should use the same method to resolve the staff grievances.
“There is not a single issue that has occurred amongst the students’ fraternity and management didn’t encourage us to embrace dialogue to resolve it; in the same spirit we also beseech top management to employ dialogue to settle this hiatus,” the letter further reads.
According to the guild president, students have not had lectures since Tuesday when staff declared a sit-down strike.
