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Nigeria: Workers Threaten to Paralyse Health Sector Over Job Losses.
- [ 07/05/2007
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National President of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Comrade Ayyuba B. Wabba told Daily Trust yesterday that the unions will meet today to strategise and fix a date for the nationwide "full scale and indefinite strike action."
He said the strike will be jointly organised by his union, the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational, Research and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of University Teaching Hospital Hospitals, Research and Associated Institutions (SSAUTHRAI).
According to him, the strike was necessary in view of the "persistent and blatant failure" of the federal government to respect the agreement reached with the unions on the need to halt retrenchment of workers in the health sector.
Comrade Wabba told Daily Trust that rather than down-sizing health personnel, government should employ more trained staff in the sector, saying that government hospitals are grossly under-staffed and have become mere consulting clinics.
Also, in a letter addressed to the minister of Health, Professor Eyitayo Lambo, the unions called on the government to address the issues of double taxation of workers' emoluments, non-payment of arrears of monetisation and pension buy-back regime, or face the wrath of the unions.
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