Tag Archives: Nurses Strike

February 2017 DailyNation; Nurses in Embu have gone on strike protesting against failure by the county government to pay them allowances negotiated in 2016. The over 600 nurses stormed the Embu County government offices Wednesday afternoon, demanding to be paid Sh12,000 each, which the government agreed to pay them as …

January 2016 DailyNation; Nurses in Tharaka-Nithi County have downed their tools demanding to be paid their December salaries and remittance of statutory deductions. This is the 17th time the county’s health workers have gone on strike since the inception of devolution. In a press release, Kenya National Union of Nurses …

December 2016 DailyNation; Nurses’ union officials have called off their national strike after governors signed to recognise their Collective Bargaining Agreement, a decision that has earned the caregivers of up to Sh20,000 monthly allowances. Negotiations on the nurses four-year CBA will begin in January 2017 and will stretch until no …

December 2016 DailyNation; The strike by nurses has been called off after the Ministry of Health and the union signed a Sh7 billion agreement. The deal between Kenya National Union of Nurses (Knun) and the ministry will see nurses receive allowances of between Sh15,000 to Sh20,000, depending on their job …

November 2016 DailyNation; Doctors and nurses Saturday issued separate 21-day strike notices, saying that the salaries commission had duped them with the job evaluation released Friday. They said that the report by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission had not only delayed their separate pay deals, it had also failed to …