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Health workers vow to down tools as pay talks collapse

Kenya Union of Nurses (Meru branch) officials at a press conference on April 27, 2016, while announcing a notice to go on strike from May 9. PHOTOS: PETER MUTHOMI/STANDARD

Health workers have vowed to go on strike next week after talks with the Meru county government collapsed.

The workers’ union officials, who attended a meeting convened by County Secretary Julius Kimathi on Tuesday, left in a huff to protest an invitation to the media for a joint press conference to “call off the strike”.

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