The industrial disharmony that has been creating disruptions in the
While the workers in EKSUTH are threatening a showdown with the state government over the sack of about 200 workers by the government and unpaid emoluments, their Ondo counterparts are already on a no-work mode because of three to six months unpaid salaries.
The Resident Doctors at
The striking doctors said they could no longer condone the non-payment of their wages by the state government.
They lamented that they were being owed between three and six month salaries depending on when they joined the service.
The strike had grounded activities at the hospitals both in Ondo town and the Akure, forcing patients to seek medical attention in private hospitals.
The Chairman, Media Committee,
He said several meetings with the state government had failed to resolve the problem and "so they had no choice but to go on strike."
The doctors also accused the hospital's management of doing a selective payment as thirty three out of over one hundred and fifty doctors who were paid one month salary recently.
They promised to return to work as soon as their salaries were paid.
Meanwhile the Ondo State Commissioner for Health,
He explained that the protesting doctors were new employees whose appointment processes "were still being perfected".
Ado Ekiti
Meanwhile, in Ado Ekiti, the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU),
The resident doctors had planned a strike to commence on Monday, demanding that the sacked workers be reabsorbed promptly before Monday.
With some of the demands met and further discussions scheduled with the government, the workers said they had no choice but to shelve the planned strike.
The health union, in stating its reasons for shelving the strike, stated that the suspension "was to display respect for the state governor,
After the expiration of the first ultimatum on Thursday, the union gave a three-day extension which expired at midnight on Sunday.
However, on Sunday afternoon, the Chairman of JOHESU, EKSUTH chapter, Omotola Farotimi, said the strike had been suspended following a resolution reached by labour and the management on
"We won't be going on strike again," she said. "On Friday, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on
"Some of them had been reabsorbed and we are told they are to go back to their duty posts with immediate effect.
"They (government) have also agreed to meet all our agitations on welfare of members soon. We give the governor the regard for coming to our aid and for calling the meeting to hear us out.
"We are giving him that respect that is why we are suspending the strike hoping that the needful would be done."
Terms
He also explained the terms of the agreement.
He said the agreement between the workers and the government stipulated that all the sacked workers "shall be given fair hearing by EKSUTH's board's appeal panel during its sitting in February."
"It was also agreed that all the sacked workers working in critical sectors should return to their duty posts with immediate effect, with a promise that their re-absorption will be forwarded to the board for ratification.
"It was also resolved that all those with genuine cases will be redressed with all their salaries and allowances paid. And that no one would be made to be victim of witchhunt over the imbroglio in EKSUTH," the official said.
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