Tag Archives: Strike

November 2017 Dailynation; Kenyans can now breathe a sigh of relief after nurses working in public hospitals called of their strike which had lasted for five months. The nurses’ union Thursday called off the strike after signing an agreement with the Council of Governors (CoG) and the Ministry of Health. …

October 2017 BusinessDaily; Clinical officers have called off strike after signing a return-to-work formula with governors and the Health ministry. This is after spending close to 20 days in the streets protesting the Salaries and Remuneration Commission’s (SRC) job evaluation cadres. Speaking at Afya House on Thursday, Secretary-General of the Kenya …

September 2017 Dailynation; A Class Eight pupil in a Kisii school is among eight women forced into a congested ward at Christa Marriane Hospital because they have nowhere else to go. Speaking to the Sunday Nation, the pupil, who is scheduled to sit the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination, burst …

September 2017 BusinessDaily;  Crisis in the public health sector deepened Friday after clinical officers went on a nationwide strike over delayed salaries, unpaid internship and “unfair” job evaluation by the Salaries and Remunerations Commission (SRC). The officers had given county governments a 10-day ultimatum last week to pay their outstanding …

July 2017 Dailynation; Nurses at Kenyatta National Hospital have joined the ongoing nationwide nurses’ job boycott. The strike to push for recognition and implementation of the caregivers’ Collective Bargaining Agreement entered its 58th day on Monday. While citing overworking, the nurses at KNH said they had decided to boycott duty …

June 2017 Dailynation; The Central Organisation of Trade Unions has offered to mediate in the deadlock between nurses on strike and their employer, which enters the seventh day today. Acting Cotu Secretary-General Benson Okwaro said the talks will be held in Nairobi tomorrow, attended by officers from the Ministry of Labour …

June 2017 BusinessDaily; Just two months after Kenyan doctors agreed to end a painful 100-day strike, nurses are following suit with a threat to paralyse the public health system with an industrial action of their own. Through their union, the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), the care givers have threatened …

May 2017 Dailynation; A doctors’ strike is in the offing if the national and county governments do not conclude the issues that are stalling the implementation of the March collective bargaining agreement. It is this CBA, alongside a recognition agreement, that ended the 100-day doctors’ strike on March 14. The Kenya …

May 2017 DailyNation; Health services have been paralysed in all public hospitals in Nakuru County after doctors downed their tools demanding a five-month unpaid salary. And in Nyeri, a strike by nurses that started on May 1 has shut down services in public hospitals in the region, forcing patients to …

May 2017 ThePremiumTimes; The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has called on the Federal Government to shelve its planned harmonisation of salaries of health workers in the country. The association’s position is contained in a communiqué issued by Mike Ogirima, President of NMA, on Sunday at the end of the 57th …