Kisumu health workers have a issued a seven-day strike notice to the county government to address their grievances. It was issued on March 31.
The officials are demanding payment of February and March salaries and remittance of all accrued statutory deductions and other deductibles payable to various institutions before April 7 this year.
Failure to address their grievances will lead to them walk off the job on on the night of April 7.
The health workers include nurses, clinical officers, medical laboratory, technologists and pharmaceutical technologists. Doctors are unable to work without the assistance of other union members.
The statement was signed by union officials led by secretaries Ann Owiti (Kenya National Union of Nurses), Hilary Awili (Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers), Craus OKumu (Kenya Union of Clinical Officers) and Antony Aol (Kenya National Union Of Pharmaceutical Technologists).
They said as representatives of the healthcare workers, they have endeavoured to maintain a cordial working relationship with the county government.
However, they said the county government has continually failed to safeguard and espouse the constitutional rights of their members to fair and timely remuneration.
The union officials said the healthcare workers have endured persistent salary delays, delayed remittance of statutory deductions such as the National Health Insurance Fund and PAYE.
Others deductions include Helb loans and bank loans, insurance premiums among others.
Currently, healthcare workers the officials said have not been paid their February 2023 and March 2023 salaries, subjecting them to a lot of untold sufferings.
"With no money to pay rent, buy food, commute to duty station, pay school fees amongst other daily sustenance, such as service providers. [members are] not in a mental, physical and psychological state to provide services," the statement read.
"Failure to [meet these demands],our members shall down tools on the midnight of 7th April 2023 at exactly 1200 hrs."
They said they hope institution act swiftly to meet their demands and avoid disruption of services.
(Edited by V. Graham)