The Chairman, Medical and Health
Workers Union, Enugu State Chapter, Mr
Maurice Eze, said on Saturday that health
workers in state hospitals had begun an
indefinite strike to protest the non-
implementation of the 2009 Salary
Structure.
Eze told the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) in Enugu that the approved 2009
salary structure for health workers and
professionals had not been fully
implemented by the state government.
He said the state government had
implemented the doctors’ Salary
Structure, but that it had yet to
implement that of the health workers.
“All the states in Nigeria have
implemented the structure, except Enugu,”
Eze said.
“We have written and appealed to the
state government to pay us but to no
avail.
“Even when they took us to court, the
court ordered them to pay us because it
is our entitlement but the government
refused to carry out the order.
“Our two months’ salaries for April and
May 2009 were seized because we went
on strike to press for our demand and up
till this moment, we are yet to be paid
the seized salaries.
“We will not call off the strike until the
state government meets our demands, “
he added. (NAN)
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