Fiji nurses strike

Nurses in Fiji have begun the second day of a national strike over pay levels.

Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney reports over 1,400 members of the Fiji Nursing Association left their posts at midnight on Tuesday, saying they will not return until the interim government returns a five per cent reduction in pay imposed at the start of the year.
The interim minster for labour and industrial relations, Bernadette Rounds-Ganilau, has told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat she is still hopeful a resolution can be found.
"There is still room to move, there is still room to talk," she said.
But it is not just nurses who are unhappy.
Teachers and other government workers are planning to walk off the job next week, for exactly the same reason.
The interim government of coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama maintains it cannot afford any payrises for government workers.

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