JOHESU threatens strike over pay in Nigeria
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Vanguard
Nigerian union JOHESU is mobilising health workers for a possible strike over the failure to implement the CONHESS salary scale adjustment for nearly 13 years. After talks with the government resumed, its leaders are now demanding immediate implementation, according to Vanguard.
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has mobilised its members in Nigeria for a possible strike to demand implementation of a salary adjustment that has been pending for about 13 years. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council held on Thursday, 29 October, according to the union, cited by Vanguard.
The demand concerns a revision of the Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS). JOHESU has put its members on alert and ordered mobilisation to begin in health facilities across the country, without announcing a date for the strike.
The union says President Bola Tinubu promised on 5 June 2023 to implement the adjustment, after asking for an earlier strike to be suspended. It accuses the Presidential Committee on Salaries of letting the process stall and rejects any further justification based on the committee not having met.
JOHESU welcomed efforts by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) in support of the salary adjustment. Its resolutions were signed by its national chairman, Kabiru Minjibir, and national secretary, Martin Egbanubi, according to Vanguard.
