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TimesLive reports that most hospitals across the country were operating normally on Tuesday as the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) appeared to have complied with the order of the Labour Appeal Court (LAC) interdicting it and its members in essential service from continuing with the public sector strike at health centres.
The strike, which began the previous Monday, saw a number of health facilities unable to provide full services to patients after some workers faced intimidation. The Gauteng provincial health department said a preliminary report on Tuesday morning indicated that most of its facilities were operating as expected. In the Free State, a health department spokesperson said all seemed to be back to normal on Tuesday morning. Nehawu spokesperson Lwazi Nkolonzi pointed out that the interdict did not bar the union from continuing with the strike in the public service but was limited to workers in essential service and at the Special Investigating Unit, the SA Social Security Agency and the SA National Biodiversity Institute. “The rest of the other departments not covered by the interdict are continuing with the strike, including at home affairs and agriculture. Our leaders are addressing them today. We are intensifying the strike,” he indicated. Nkolonzi added that the union was engaged in a Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council-facilitated process in an effort to resolve the dispute.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ernest Mabuza at BusinessLive
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