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The Kozhikode territory committee of the United Nurses Association (UNA) has temporarily withdrawn the ongoing indefinite onslaught successful backstage hospitals, seeking a amended wage bundle and different benefits.
UNA Kozhikode territory president Jishnu Ashok told The Hindu connected Saturday (March 14) that the relation members had joined work successful their respective hospitals. This comes a time aft the Kerala High Court directed the UNA to defer the onslaught till March 19. Talks are expected to beryllium held astatine the court’s mediation centre connected March 17. “If determination is nary advancement aft the talks, the onslaught volition continue,” Mr. Ashok added.
Around 1,500 nurses successful assorted backstage hospitals successful the territory had been striking enactment since March 9, disrupting the functioning of galore cardinal departments specified arsenic captious attraction and exigency care. One of their main demands is to summation the basal wage to ₹40,000. The UNA had earlier launched a onslaught connected March 4. Thereafter, lone one-third of nursing unit had been reporting for enactment successful immoderate of the large hospitals. In caller days, adjacent that fig had travel down. The striking nurses had been staging a ‘dharna’ extracurricular the Kozhikode collectorate arsenic well.
Meanwhile, the UNA has travel to an statement with the absorption of Iqraa International Hospital successful the city, wherever the onslaught has been withdrawn.
