Although the government intervened to end the nurses’ strike over wages and working conditions, dissatisfied healthcare workers continue to stage walkouts in defiance of an agreement that they say makes no meaningful change. In March, nurses rejected a government offer of a 5.02% wage increase over three years. In June they rejected a mediation proposal that would maintain the current pay scheme but establish a committee to examine the wage structure in the wider public sector.
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