The Joint Council of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria in collaboration with the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives Kwara state council is set to commence an indefinite strike on Monday, the fourteenth of January, 2019 across all the sixteen local government areas in the state.
This was disclosed in a statement jointly signed by the state Chairmen of the unions, comrade Joshua Adekanye and comrade Muritala Olayinka Saheed.
They said that all the state health facilities/hospitals including the ministry of environment and Agriculture should also join the strike as from Monday twenty first January 2019 to press home the implementation of approved ten percent consolidated health salary structure for the workers at the councils.
The union said the state government had implementated of the approved ten percent consolidated health salary structure for state health workers since July 2018 and refused to implement same for health workers at the local government levels in the state.
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