JOHESU, FMC ASABA CHAPTER ON THREE-DAY PROTEST RALLY FOR UNPAID TWO MONTHS SALARIES

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Members of the Joint Health Sector Union, FMC Asaba chapter, have keyed into the three-day mobilization and sensitization rally ordered by the National body of the union to protest against the non payment of their April and May 2018 salaries.

The salaries were seized by the federal government on the advice of the Federal Ministry of  Health in the aftermath of the two month strike embarked on by members of the union last year in compliance with the principle of No Work No Pay.

During the protest rally the workers, who constitute over ninety percent of the hospital’s workforce, withdrew their services from the hours of eight in the morning to twelve in the afternoon, carrying placards with various inscriptions on their plight and chanting solidarity songs.

The union’s chapter chairman, Comrade Davidson Akilaiya, who led the protest, said the workers had been oppressed beyond patience, with the attendant hardship telling on them and their families.

Comrade Akilaiya wondered why JOHESU members should be penalized for the strike when it was agreed upon by government and the union that no one should be punished.

He added that doctors had never forfeited their salaries whenever they embarked on strike and appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the interest of fairness and justice.

Comrade Akilaiya said the rally was to draw the attention of the public to the plight of JOHESU members, pointing out that the workers would go on strike if the federal government failed to address the issues in contention.

The rally, which started on Monday, February 11, is taking place in the thirty six states of the federation and the FCT and will end on Wednesday, February 13.

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