A coalition of workers in the health sector have threatened nationwide strike if government does not begin implementing over the next 15 days agreements both sides reached on worker welfare and conditions of service.
Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), an umbrella for four different unions of healthworkers, also threatened legal action against Nigerian Medical Association if doctors go on strike over labour issues.
JOHESU insists the doctors association is not a registered union and has questioned its authority to strike or negotiate salaries with government.
The agreement between JOHESU and government was reached and signed in May 2012, including reconstitution of boards of health institutions, staff promotion from levels 14 to 15 on the consolidated health salary scale for directors, and review of retirement age from 60 to 65 years.
The union says government is yet to implement the report of a job evaluation ordered in 2008 and a separate report on harmony in the health sector presented by a presidential committee headed by Abdullahi Bello.
At a press briefing in Abuja, JOHESU president Ayuba Wabba said, “We had negotiated desirable adjustment to the 2009 CONHESS salary table and allowances as was done for the NMA in January 2014.
Ironically, government reneged because of the threat by the NMA.
”In comments delivered by Felix Faniran, president of Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals called government action “provocative, insulting and unjust in the worst dimension.”JOHESU accused NMA of repeatedly flouting judicial pronouncements about its lack of right to strike.
“It has refused to comply with this law. But if they continue, we will be forced to take them to court,” the union said.
Source: DailyTrust
Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), an umbrella for four different unions of healthworkers, also threatened legal action against Nigerian Medical Association if doctors go on strike over labour issues.
JOHESU insists the doctors association is not a registered union and has questioned its authority to strike or negotiate salaries with government.
The agreement between JOHESU and government was reached and signed in May 2012, including reconstitution of boards of health institutions, staff promotion from levels 14 to 15 on the consolidated health salary scale for directors, and review of retirement age from 60 to 65 years.
The union says government is yet to implement the report of a job evaluation ordered in 2008 and a separate report on harmony in the health sector presented by a presidential committee headed by Abdullahi Bello.
At a press briefing in Abuja, JOHESU president Ayuba Wabba said, “We had negotiated desirable adjustment to the 2009 CONHESS salary table and allowances as was done for the NMA in January 2014.
Ironically, government reneged because of the threat by the NMA.
”In comments delivered by Felix Faniran, president of Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals called government action “provocative, insulting and unjust in the worst dimension.”JOHESU accused NMA of repeatedly flouting judicial pronouncements about its lack of right to strike.
“It has refused to comply with this law. But if they continue, we will be forced to take them to court,” the union said.
Source: DailyTrust
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