Planned hospital strike may be called off
A 24-hour strike scheduled for next Tuesday at public hospitals may be called off, but this depends on the state health services (Okypy)’s reaction to discussion that were held ...
Okypy to answer back over union rejection
The State Health Services (Okypy) is set to outline its responses after six unions rejected its latest financial proposal for collective agreements covering hospital workers.
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Our View: State hospitals doomed if politicians keep kowtowing to unions
Some 10 days ago, we had written that the most foolish decision taken by the Anastasiades government on Gesy was to allow public hospital workers to keep the public servant status ...
Striking healthcare workers and Okypy at loggerheads over pay (Update 2)
By Andria Kades and Iole Damaskinos
Healthcare workers in public hospitals went on a nationwide strike on Wednesday, leaving skeleton staff to handle caseloads amid demands for equal pay.
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Eleventh-hour meeting fails to prevent strike at hospital (updated)
A doctors and nurses strike at all state hospitals will go ahead on Wednesday after an eleventh-hour meeting between the state health services organisation (Okypy) and trade union representatives failed ...
Last minute meeting fails to avert hospital strike
A meeting chaired by Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Monday afternoon did not succeed in averting a two-hour strike by doctors and nurses at state hospitals scheduled for Tuesday.
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Our View: Hospital staff sympathy-ploy strikes will not win over public
Public sector unions have always been strike-happy, but the two-hour work stoppage at the Limassol general A&E, which also sparked a sympathy strike by the Paphos hospital staff, ...