Tag Archives: Nurses Strike

May 2020 DailyNation; Health workers’ quest for better allowances hangs in the balance after county governments were told to reorganise their budgets to raise Sh2.356 billion required to implement the welfare and insurance package This comes after Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, in a letter to Salaries and Remuneration Commission …

April 2020 theStandard; Health workers now say they will issue fresh strike notice on Monday next week, to protest unfavourable working conditions. The seven-day ultimatum that had been issued expires today and the union leaders now say they have extended an olive branch to the government to engage them appropriately …

March 2020 DailyNation; Nurses at Mbagathi Hospital, which has one of the three largest isolation camps for coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, are on a go-slow. The healthcare professionals are citing lack of adequate coronavirus training and little support to protect their families who they go home to every evening after working near patients …

March 2019 Daily nation; The month-long conciliation talks between nurses and their employers have not borne any fruit, the Nation has learnt. After the health workers went on strike, the Council of Governors moved to court, which ordered the parties to attend conciliation meetings initiated by Labour Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani and …

March TheStar; The hiring of nurses and other county government employees on contracts will lower the pension debt in both the counties and country, Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has said. Kahiga said governors and the National Government reached the decision so as to ensure counties do not run into pension debts. “Currently …

February 2019 Business Daily;President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday appeared to have closed all avenues for dialogue with the striking nurses after he ruled out raising “the bloated and unsustainable” public wage bill further. Instead, the President restated the position of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) saying more attempts should …

February 2019 thestar;Labour Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani on Friday failed to convince nurses to return to work with the medics accusing their employers of not honouring agreements. The nurses defied President Uhuru Kenyatta’s and governors’ order to resume work by Friday. Uhuru on Wednesday warned that those who failed to …

February 2019 thestar;President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered all nurses to report to work by February 15 or face dismissal by the county government and the Health ministry. Last week, the court suspended the nurses’ strike for 60 days. This was after the Council of Governors sought an injunction to enable both …

April 2018 Dailynation; Zimbabwe has fired all nurses who were on strike to demand higher salaries, in a hardline response to growing labour arrest by the country’s new leadership . Several thousand nurses were sacked in a terse statement issued on Tuesday evening by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who accused the strikers …

January 2017 Standardmedia; The nurses’ union has issued a fresh demand to county governments. Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) on Thursday blamed county governments for delayed payments of its workers. KNUN accused the governments of not honouring the return to work formula and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed in November, 2017. The union demanded the …