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snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 02:54 PM Oct 2014

Here's an interesting development: Liberia’s Ebola Workers Threaten To Strike

Some health care workers think newly announced hazard pay is too low. They say they’re giving the government until Friday to make a change.

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But Liberia’s nurses, hygienists, technicians, and other lesser paid health workers are angry about the disparity in the hazard pay, which offers doctors nearly twice as much money as nurses, assistants, and other lower-level health workers.

“We have been patient, but we will stop coming to work,” Alphonso P. Massaley, staff representative at the Island Clinic, which opened in Monrovia late September, told BuzzFeed News. “When they are making decisions, they do not regard us, they sit in their offices and decide, whether it is in our interest or not they do not care.”


http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/liberias-ebola-workers-threaten-to-strike#18z1ah8




I support them. The world needs to ante up to pay these people serious money as their jobs given the conditions in Liberai are basically death warrants.
















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Here's an interesting development: Liberia’s Ebola Workers Threaten To Strike (Original Post) snagglepuss Oct 2014 OP
absolutely, some there have paid with their lives belzabubba333 Oct 2014 #1
Pay up. Absolutely! JimDandy Oct 2014 #2

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
2. Pay up. Absolutely!
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 04:12 PM
Oct 2014

It's turning out to be an actual death sentence for anyone in that line of work in Liberia.

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