Medics out of NOTU
Nov 22, 2004
THE Uganda Medical Workers’ Union (UMWU) has broken away from the National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU).
By Joyce Namutebi
THE Uganda Medical Workers’ Union (UMWU) has broken away from the National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU).
The union condemned the move by NOTU to recall workers’ MP Dr. Sam Lyomoki from Parliament. and threatened to lay down their tools should the petition succeed. Lyomoki is UMWU general secretary.
UMWU resolved to join sister unions to take legal action against NOTU to “stop such acts of evil that are a violation of workers’ rights†and to challenge the (NOTU) petition.
The resolutions were made at the end of a UMWU delegates’ conference at the Regency Hotel, Bakuli, on Sunday.
The medical workers approved a resolution moved by their National Chairman, Apollo Nyangasi, to uphold the decision of the National Executive Council of quitting NOTU and affiliating to the Central Organisation of Free Trade Unions of Uganda (COFTU).
Nyangasi said there was a crisis in the Uganda Trade Union Movement, which was seen as created by NOTU.
The officers resolved to have health workers participate in a peaceful demonstration to protest the “smear campaign†by NOTU. Sam Ediu, the secretary for education, moved the resolution condemning NOTU.
THE Uganda Medical Workers’ Union (UMWU) has broken away from the National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU).
The union condemned the move by NOTU to recall workers’ MP Dr. Sam Lyomoki from Parliament. and threatened to lay down their tools should the petition succeed. Lyomoki is UMWU general secretary.
UMWU resolved to join sister unions to take legal action against NOTU to “stop such acts of evil that are a violation of workers’ rights†and to challenge the (NOTU) petition.
The resolutions were made at the end of a UMWU delegates’ conference at the Regency Hotel, Bakuli, on Sunday.
The medical workers approved a resolution moved by their National Chairman, Apollo Nyangasi, to uphold the decision of the National Executive Council of quitting NOTU and affiliating to the Central Organisation of Free Trade Unions of Uganda (COFTU).
Nyangasi said there was a crisis in the Uganda Trade Union Movement, which was seen as created by NOTU.
The officers resolved to have health workers participate in a peaceful demonstration to protest the “smear campaign†by NOTU. Sam Ediu, the secretary for education, moved the resolution condemning NOTU.