Netcare faces strike over pay in S.Africa

Date 2011/4/16 10:04:49 | Topic: South Africa

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reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of nurses at South Africa's biggest private hospital group Netcare are mulling a strike over better pay, union officials said on Friday.
About 5,000 workers led by the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) demand 11 percent pay hike after rejecting the company's 7.5 percent increment.

"We are currently in the process of mobilizing our members at Netcare to exert pressure on the employer to improve their conditions of service and pay them a living wage," Asanda Fongqo, DENOSA spokesman said in a statement.

No one at Netcare, which also operates in the UK, was immediately available to comment.

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