Our View: A blatant case of social injustice
PLANS to introduce a national health scheme (Gesy) were dealt a big blow after the public servants’ union Pasydy said that its members would not...
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‘Time to stop thinking public workers are of a higher order’
Public service union Pasydy’s demand that its members be exempt from contributing to the national health system (Gesy) sparked fierce reactions on Thursday from the...
Nurses to get higher entry-level wages, unions’ in-fighting (Update)
HEALTH Minister Giorgos Pamborides announced on Friday that the government has granted state nurses their long-standing demand for higher entry-level wages to match their university...
Pasydy: “we won’t go down” if Supreme Court finds deductions unconstitutional
Glafkos Hadjipetrou, the general-secretary of civil servants’ union Pasydy, said he expects that “in a matter of months” the Supreme Court will decide on the...
Our View: The return of old habits that led to bankruptcy of the state
EVEN though none of the bills for reforming the public service were approved by the legislature, the provision linking the annual pay rise to the...
Government, Pasydy agree to link pay rises to economic growth (Update)
Finance minister Harris Georgiades and the secretary general of civil servant union Pasydy Glafcos Hadjipetrou signed on Monday an agreement tying the public payroll increase...
Bicommunal trade union forum ‘at disposal of the leaders’
The Cyprus Trade Unions’ Forum, which will convene on January 9, remains at the disposal of the two leaders and their negotiating teams for any...
The ‘strange’ actions of our finance minister
By Loucas Charalambous THE LETTER sent by the European Commission to the finance minister, noting the worrying path that Cyprus’ public finances had started taking...
Pamboridis says he will not allow interference in med school deal
HEALTH Minister Giorgos Pamboridis said on Thursday that that it was the government’s obligation to ensure cooperation between the state university and public hospitals and...
Doctors, nurses complain of secrecy in NHS bills
Government doctors and nurses complained on Monday that they were being kept in the dark about two draft bills relating to the adoption of a...
Tax chief backtracks a bit on ‘coffee shop’ comment
HIS remarks to the House watchdog committee on Thursday were not meant as a slight to the tax department’s civil servants, Tax chief Yiannis Tsangaris...
Nurses call two-hour stoppage at Athalassa after convict injures three staff members
Nurses belonging to the public sector union Pasydy will hold a two-hour work stoppage on Thursday to protest against an incident involving a convict at...
Public servants want things to ‘go back to normal’
The road to economic stability and recovery is long but the island must prepare to return to normalcy, the leader of the main civil service...
Strike forces ministry to open up private health sector to cut waiting lists (Update 5)
All patients on waiting lists for surgeries at state hospitals on or after March 15 will undergo the procedures in the private sector, following a...
Why should I lose it all and the civil servants get back the little they lost?
When 65-year-old Rosie Ioannou decided to retire to Cyprus in 2010 after four decades working in the UK she imagined she would live comfortably for...
PASYDY nurses close to a deal, 185 new jobs expected
THE agreement between the Finance ministry and civil servants union PASYDY as regards demands of nurses is in the process of implementation, the union’s nursing...
PASYDY nurses distance themselves from disgruntled colleagues
NURSES affiliated to the civil servants’ union PASYDY explicitly distanced themselves from their colleagues of the PASYNO union who are planning to go on strike...
Nursing students will support PASYNO if union votes for strike
Students from the nursing faculty at the University of Technology (TEPAK) in Limassol said on Sunday they would fully support an indefinite strike by nurses...
Nurses unions fail to agree on way forward
A meeting between the two public-hospital nurses unions on Friday did not lead to any agreement to jointly push for the same demands, it emerged...
Nurses unions to discuss forging ties
The two public-hospital nurses’ unions should discuss joining forces to push for their demands, PASYDY union nurses’ branch leader Prodromos Argyrides told the Cyprus Mail...
