JOHESU begins 7-day warning strike June 22

Following the inability of Federal Government to meet the demands of health workers under the auspices of Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), the group has declared a seven-day warning strike which commenced yesterday (Wednes­day).

The leadership of JOHESU has therefore directed all its mem­bers in Federal Tertiary Health Institutions to immediately pro­ceed on a 7-day warning strike from 12:01am of Wednesday 22 June, 2016.

Members of JOHESU com­prises of about seven unions and constitute about 90 per cent of the workforce in the health sec­tor.

In a communiqué at the end of its meeting in Abuja, yester­day, the group noted that it was shocked to hear from the federal government delegation at the meeting yesterday that there was no agreement that was signed between it and the federal gov­ernment which needed to be implemented.

The communiqué was signed by the National President of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Biobelemoye Joy Josiah; Na­tional President, National Asso­ciation of Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Comrade Adeniji Adeniyi and seven others.

While expressing its frustra­tion, the JOHESU said: “Fol­lowing repeated ultimatums totaling 92 days issued to the Federal Government by JO­HESU, a meeting was called for Monday June 20, 2016, at the instance of the Federal Govern­ment with a view to resolving the issues in dispute.

“At the rescheduled meeting of Tuesday, June 21, 2016, it was observed that despite the series of meetings earlier held with committees and sub-committees set up to look unto the various issues presented by JOHESU and agreements reached, to our utmost surprise the federal gov­ernment asserted that there was no agreement on the issues upon which erstwhile Secretary to the Federal Government set up a sub-committee.