UASU was
established to fight for and protect labor rights of academic staff.
It has
done so vigorously and made huge achievements.
In 2014, the union engineered
and prosecuted six months strike that yield a salary and a house allowance
increase of 135% and 160%.
This drastically improved lecturers’ earnings and
quality of life.
Since then, it has regularly negotiated salary and house
allowance increments, and other terms of condition of service.
Before the
advent of UASU, lecturers could not even afford good furniture and other
household commodities.