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January 2017 CapitalFM; Striking doctors have dared Governors to make good their threat to sack them this Wednesday, vowing that they will not go back to work until the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed in 2013 is implemented. Through the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), the medics …
Read More »KENYA: Treasury ready to set aside Sh4bn for striking medics
December 2016 BusinessDaily; The Treasury is willing to set aside up to Sh4 billion to settle the labour dispute with striking health workers, an allocation that is less than half what is needed to meet the doctors’ demand of a 300 per cent salary increase. Treasury secretary Henry Rotich told …
Read More »KENYA: Union officials to be sentenced for role in strike by healthcare workers
December 2016 DailyNation; The head of a doctors’ union and other officials will tomorrow be sentenced by the labour court for their role in the nationwide strike. Lady Justice Hellen Wasilwa on Tuesday found Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union officials guilty of contempt and ordered them to appear …
Read More »KENYA: Fresh bid to end doctors’ strike collapses
December 2016 DailyNation; Afresh attempt to end an 11-day strike by doctors has come to naught after union officials were “chased out” of a meeting called by Labour Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie. Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) Secretary-General Ouma Oluga said the Thursday meeting was casually announced …
Read More »KENYA: Court declares doctors’ strike illegal as KMPDU vows to carry on
December 2016 DailyNation; The Employment and Labour Relations Court has declared the ongoing doctors’ strike illegal. However, doctors insist the national job boycott that has paralysed health services across the country is still on. The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPPDU) on Tuesday said its members would carry …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors strike to go on as talks hit deadlock
December 2016 DailyNation; The government has failed, for the second day, to convince striking medics to get back to work. In what could worsen the suffering of the sick in public hospitals, Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu on Tuesday evening admitted the talks between the government, nurses and medical doctors …
Read More »KENYA: Patients left on their own as health workers boycott work
December 2016 DailyNation; Health workers have made good on their threat to boycott work to push the government to implement a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) they signed in June 2013. This is after the 21-day strike notice they issued on November 14 expired on Monday. Dr Fredrick Oluga, the Kenya …
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