The teachings of HIV, TB and Covid: Value community healthcare workers more
Community healthcare workers are indispensable to fighting health epidemics yet most are treated as volunteers deserving only of a stipend.
Community healthcare workers are indispensable to fighting health epidemics yet most are treated as volunteers deserving only of a stipend.
“People do as they please, and without consequences in this department,” workers say.
Unions claim that the labour department is doing the health department’s bidding by proposing to remove community health workers from the public health bargaining council.
Saftu says the EFF has agreed on the mobilisation of the broadest possible front of working class formations for an effective National Shutdown.
The finance minister would deny in his speech that he was presenting an austerity budget, but confirmed the expectations of public sector unions and the unemployed who marched in Cape Town against budget austerity.
The unions have given the government seven days to respond positively to their memorandum or face further strike action.
The unions are adamant that they will go back to the streets in demand for a 10% salary increase.
Staff shortages, staff attitudes, extended waiting times and medicine stockouts are crippling health services in the province.
The magistrate made her ruling without allowing for cross examination of the accused..
The EPWP workers have vowed to fight until their demands are met.
Community health workers keep on delivering services to communities against many odds, while burdened by the loss of colleagues to Covid-19.
As the outcry by thousands of care workers whose bodies continue to be on the frontline against covid-19 gets louder around the country, their conditions of work remain unchanged.