Industrial action will be taken by nursing aides, health assistants, care workers and assistant care workers in all hospitals and health centres from today in view of the government's "hard-headedness" in dealing with it on a number of issues, the General Workers' Union said yesterday.
It said that in a meeting yesterday on pending issues regarding premium allowances and grade 13 workers, the Health Division and the Office of the Prime Minister did not budge from their position.
The union was last night due to hold a committee meeting to decide on the action to be taken, the GWU government and public entities section secretary Lewis Marsh told The Times.
The GWU said that immediately after a meeting on July 24, out of goodwill, it had suspended industrial action that was underway in hospitals and health centres to wait for "acceptable" proposals from the concerned authorities. "But their main aim was to keep on prolonging the issue," it said.
When contacted, a spokesman for the Health Ministry chose not to comment at this stage.