Health workers dig their heels in

In a petition handed to the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Health yesterday, the federation of public service unions said it did not agree that as providers of an essential service, health workers could not bargain for better pay and/or withdraw their labour as a last resort.

After a slow march from GSS Grounds to Town Hall in Gaborone, BOFEPUSU handed its petition to the PS, Molataamo Malefho. In it, the union federation said if health workers were indeed an essential service, the government owed them benefits due to employees so classified, given that some of them had been in employment for the past 25 years, they said.