The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has said all health workers will on November 12, 2014 withdraw all their services from all government tertiary health facilities if their demands are not met by the government.
A statement by the union’s national leadership, Dr. Ayuba P. Wabba and Yusuf-Badmus said their negotiations with government did not yield the desired results, accusing government of playing delay tactics.
JOHESU consists of Nurses and laboratory workers and technicians.
The group alleged that the issue government was delaying to implement had already been approved by the National industrial court but they, “continued with its tactics of filibustering.”
The statement reads in part, “the positions of the Federal Government side can be summed up as being long on promises, but hollow in the extent of substance. This is obviously a case of one step forward four steps backward.”
The health workers’ grouses include: “non-promotion of our members from salary CONHESS 14-15 as directors having stayed for 4-15 years on the same salary level without promotion in most Federal Tertiary Hospitals”.
Other demands are immediate release of circular on adjustment of salary since January 2014 and immediate payment of at least two months arrears while the remaining is
