Health
Health Workers Begin Strike At UPTH
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), yesterday, commenced on a nationwide strike action.
Chairman of JOHESU, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Comrade Kriesthien Awoibi, who spoke to The Tide, stated that the seven-days warning strike would be suspended on the morning of Monday, January 13, 2014, and added that the union would embark on a full scale strike if government did not look into their matters.
He stated that the relevant authorities had allegedly refused to look into the matters for which the union and severally downed tools in 2013.
He said, “the reason for this warning strike is, the same problem that has been lingering for so long, management and the government are not taking care of it”.
The health sector in 2013, suffered series of strikes by JOHESU, which demand included salary, discrepancies, professional disharmony, wrongful promotion and non-implementation of CONTESS 10, a special salary grade level for health workers.