Nurses in Zambia Stop Their Strike

ewiley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:00:32 +0000

After striking for about a month, nurses in Zambia have decided to go back to work. They had been fighting for a 25 percent raise in pay and allowances, the BBC reports. The government had said they would fire any nurses who did not go back to work Monday, but, in the end it was Church leaders in the nation who mediated talks between union and government officials that ended the strike for now. “I am happy that the health workers considered the plight of members of the community,” Fabian Kabulu, Zambia’s health director for the northern part of the nation, said. But nurses are giving the government one month to come up with an acceptable deal, before they go back on strike again, the news service reports.

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Nurses in Zambia Stop Their Strike