Mozambican doctors hold strike against wages suspended

The Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) has decided to maintain the suspension of the class strike, which is contesting the application of the new Single Salary Table (TSU), an official from the organization announced this Monday.

“It is the decision of the medical association not to continue with the strike, at least provisionally”, said Napoleão Viola, secretary general of the AMM, quoted this Monday by the newspaper ‘O País’.

On December 23, doctors announced the resumption of activities, for a month, after a strike that lasted 19 days, due to the festive season.

The stoppage was joined by more than 2,000 doctors, according to the association.

According to Napoleão Viola, talks with the Government continue to “seek solutions” and, depending on the results, the association may, “as is desirable, cancel the strike definitively”.

However, the official pointed out that “the medical profession continues with a high degree of dissatisfaction”.

In November, doctors postponed the claim action, after meetings with the Ministers of Economy and Health, to “give the Government time” to “implement the agreed principles”.

However, of the 12 points of contention, agreements were reached on eight, but the association says that the Mozambican government complied with “only three”.

The AMM points to the “constant change of interlocutors by the Government” and the lack of transparency about “the way doctors’ salaries are being processed or not” as some of the points that determined the failure of negotiations with the executive.

The implementation of the TSU, adopted in the final months of last year, has been the subject of strong opposition due to “non-conformities” presented by various professional classes in Mozambique, namely judges, teachers and doctors.

With information from cmjornal

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