BY EMEKA MAMAH
Lagos – The National Union of Textile and Tailoring Garments Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, weekend condemned sack of 788 medical doctors by the Lagos State government, describing it as "a direct assault on Nigeria's labour market laws and practices.''
Secretary General of the union, Comrade Issa Aremu, who made this known in a statement entitled: "Doctors: Sack the problems, not the doctors; all parties should return to negotiation."
The statement read, "sadly, in Lagos, we are burying some patients who could have lived not because there are no hospitals, but because the government that built the very hospitals lack the capacity to engage the working people namely; doctors and nurses who are expected to ensure service delivery.
''All labour market actors namely government, employers and trade unions should impress it on Lagos State government and striking medical doctors to urgently return to the negotiating table and address demands of the doctors and plights of agonizing patients.
''The demands of the doctors in particular and the medical workers in general for improved conditions of service and full implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale, CONMESS, call for dialogue".
Vanguard Nigeria