The Federal Government and striking health workers under the auspices of the Joint Health Sector Unions are meeting today (Saturday) as part of efforts to call off the ongoing strike action by the workers.
The Nation learnt that the Minister of Labour had insisted after the meeting with the unions on Tuesday that the unions get back to government by today with the position of their members to pave the way for a final resolution of the industrial crisis.
The unions are demanding among others, the:
Adjustment of CONHESS salary as done for CONMESS since January 2014Abolition of scale to scale promotionPayment of outstanding arrears of promotion, skipping and relativityAutonomy for Teaching and Specialist Hospitals in the country and other issuesImplementation of all court judgementsreview of retirement age from 60 to 65 years as done for the tertiary education sector.
The workers had declared what it called “Operation Alligator Bite”, asking its members across the country to proceed on an indefinite and total strike action from Wednesday, September 20, 2017 if government fails to meet its demand.
It is expected that an implementable agreement will be signed between the government and the unions at the end of today’s meeting to pave the way for workers to either call of or suspend the strike action.
Source:Vanguard
