FG and Striking health workers meet today

The Federal Government and striking health workers under the auspices of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) are meeting today, a move that is part of the efforts to call off the ongoing strike action by the workers.

It was gathered that the Minister of Labour had insisted after the meeting with JOHESU on Tuesday that the union get back to government by today with the position of their members, inorder  to pave way for a final resolution of the industrial crisis.

Some of the demands of JOHESU are: 

·       1.  Adjustment of CONHESS salary as done for CONMESS since January 2014

·       2.Abolition of scale to scale promotion

·       3.  Payment of outstanding arrears of promotion, skipping and relativity

·       4.Autonomy for Teaching and Specialist Hospitals in the country and other issues

·       5.  Implementation of all court judgements

·       6.  Review of retirement age from 60 to 65 years as done for the tertiary education sector.

The union 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.