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22 August 2008
By Fortune Tazvida
All doctors at all the country's referral hospitals are on strike, Amon Siveregi the chairman of the Zimbabwe Medical Doctors' Association told Nehanda Radio on Thursday.
‘We are negotiating with government, but can't yet disclose our demands because of a confidentiality clause in our dealings,’ Siveregi said.
Meanwhile the militant Progressive Teachers Union (PTUZ) has warned that teachers will be next to strike if their working conditions are not improved.
With inflation at over 50 million percent most civil servants earn only enough money to buy a couple of loaves of bread.
Attempts by government to placate the teachers with a 400 percent increase on basic salary and 900 percent increase on transport allowance have been dismissed as a ‘high sounding nothing’ by the unions.
The teachers are demanding at least US$800.
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