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Nigeria- A union leader, Mr Odebiyi Kolawole, on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to end the nationwide strike embarked upon by health workers to save the sector from collapse.
Kolawole, who is the chairman of Joint Health Workers Union, University of llorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) chapter, made the plea while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin.
According to him, the ongoing strike was a fallout of the government's inability to ensure promotion of his members, failure to approve a new salary structure, and refusal to pay arrears of over three years.
He said that the government was giving preferential treatment to the doctors without adequate and commensurate consideration of the welfare of other health workers.
He urged the Federal Government to implement the agreement it earlier reached with the union as a lasting solution to the three-week old strike and address the existing discrimination between health workers and medical doctors.
Kolawole said the union was open to dialogue with the government as long as it was ready to do the right thing.
#Nigeria #UNILORIN
Kolawole, who is the chairman of Joint Health Workers Union, University of llorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) chapter, made the plea while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin.
According to him, the ongoing strike was a fallout of the government's inability to ensure promotion of his members, failure to approve a new salary structure, and refusal to pay arrears of over three years.
He said that the government was giving preferential treatment to the doctors without adequate and commensurate consideration of the welfare of other health workers.
He urged the Federal Government to implement the agreement it earlier reached with the union as a lasting solution to the three-week old strike and address the existing discrimination between health workers and medical doctors.
Kolawole said the union was open to dialogue with the government as long as it was ready to do the right thing.
#Nigeria #UNILORIN
