Nurses’ strike: VS demands Govt’s intervention

Saturday, February 04, 2012: CPM stalwart and Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan today demanded that the Labour department must intervene and immediately resolve the strike called by the nurses in private hospitals.
Speaking to the presspersons here on Saturday, VS added that the state government must initiate action against the private hospital managements who exploit the nurses without giving them better wages. Meanwhile the talks held between the Lakeshore hospital management and the striking nurses here on Friday morning failed to reach consensus once again.
During the meeting the Lakeshore management assured that they would hold a Director Board meeting on February 9 and take a favourable decision on providing better wages for the striking nurses. However the nurses’ association informed that they were not ready to accept the proposal put forward by the management.