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Education: Zimbabwe teachers stike over pay as new term starts

Children in Zimbabwe have back to the classroom for the first time in six months considering the coronavirus outbreak. But instructors are nowhere to be viewed as two unions went on strike on Monday in a dispute over pay, working conditions and COVID-19 shielding equipment. The government shut faculties in March to prevent the unfold […]

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S’Africa: Unions Threaten Strike Over Inadequate Covid tools

South Africas largest union coprising of Education, Health and Allied Workers known as NEHAWU have threatened to go on strike beginning from Monday August 24 According to the union, this is in response to the govts failure to offer adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) against the coronavirus. “everybody is supposed to be taking the line […]

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Nigeria: Electricity workers threaten strike over sack of labour leader

The Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) has threatened to resume its pending strike, if a purported letter sacking its President, Mr Chris Okonkwo, was not withdrawn immediately. The association General Secretary, Mr Abubakar Dubagari, made this known in a statement on Friday. The Managing Director, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr […]

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ASUU insists on indefinite strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Wednesday maintained that it will not suspend its ongoing strike until the Federal Government honours its agreements with the union. This was disclosed by Dr Ezekiel Agbalagba, the ASUU branch chairman, Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun, Delta state while speaking with the News Agency of […]

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Hospital nurses call off strike in kenya

Normal operations have resumed at the Mbagathi Hospital after its nurses called off their strike. Speaking to the Star on Monday evening, Mbagathi Hospital chairman George Osewe said the decision was arrived at after a consultative meeting involving the hospital’s management, National Government and Kenyatta National Hospital representatives. “There was a disconnect between KNH and […]