July 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Ghanaian authorities have reached a wage agreement with nursing and trade unions to prevent the nationwide hospital strike, which had previously affected schools nationwide.
The Nursing Association and the Congress of Trade Unions have secured a 15 per cent increase in base pay retroactively from July 1, under the agreement reached late yesterday.
The unions had made an initial proposal for a 20 percent rise in the wake of the teachers’ strike that started earlier this month and to which the hospitals were due to join early next week.
These protests take place at a time when annual inflation in the African country has been rising for 13 consecutive months to 29.8 percent in June, a record for almost two decades, reports Bloomberg.
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