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Health workers issue fresh strike notice

Meru Health workers unions' leaders (from left seated) Sammy Muchere of the Public Health Workers Union Nesbitt Mugendi of the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) and Bakari Mugambi of the same union addressing the media on November 28, 2015 in Meru town with other union leaders. They claimed the county government had failed to keep its part of the bargain in a deal that ended a seven day strike on September 7, 2015. Photo By Martin Mwenda/Standard

Health workers are threatening to go on strike because of failure by the county government to fulfill a deal that ended a one-week strike in September.

The medics claimed that the county government had declined to initiate talks after it committed to address the grievances that saw the over 1,600 workers down tools between September 1 and September 7.

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