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CUPE Health Workers: Scrap the whistleblower hotline (CUPE - Canadian Union of Public Employees)

Public Technologies 22 Jan 2026
CUPE 5430 is calling on the provincial government to abandon plans to develop a new whistleblower hotline to report health care workers and instead focus on fixing Saskatchewan's health care crisis.
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Guelph police look to add 2nd full-time mental-health worker downtown

CBC 20 Jan 2026
Guelph Police Services Board is looking to hire a second full-time mental-health worker for the downtown core in 2026, once the decision is approved by the city in February ... .
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Nigeria: Why Lagos Health Workers Remain On Strike After Two Months - Johesu

All Africa 20 Jan 2026
The industrial action stems from unresolved issues bordering on salary structures, professional recognition and welfare concerns ....
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Mental health worker charged over alleged sexual contact with inmate

Detroit Free Press 19 Jan 2026
Nelson would arrange for "call outs" that would send the inmate to her office, even at times when "he had not requested to see a mental health worker," the inmate told MSP in a May interview.
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Kaiser nurses, health workers, deliver second strike notice

Star Advertiser 16 Jan 2026
More than 31,000 nurses and health professionals at Kaiser Permanente plan to walk off the job — for a second time — at hospitals across California and Hawaii ... .
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Community health workers matter now more than ever | Opinion

Tallahassee Democrat 16 Jan 2026
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are presented as a solution to improve healthcare access, especially in rural areas.CHWs are trusted community ... community health workers (CHWs) ... Community Health Workers.
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Occupational health workers reinstated

The Buffalo News 15 Jan 2026
The Trump Administration is reversing its deep staffing cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, reinstating hundreds of employees ....
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Nigeria: Health Workers Insist Nationwide Strike Continues Despite 'No Work, No Pay' Order

All Africa 14 Jan 2026
The union said the majority of its members voted to sustain the strike, rejecting what it described as attempts to intimidate workers into submission ....
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Health workers not paid for 3-4 months: MLA

The Times of India 14 Jan 2026
Mangaluru City South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath said that the situation of contract-based healthcare workers and ASHA workers, who worked day and night without pay for three to four months, was becoming ...
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GOCC health workers demand release of allowance

The Manila Times 14 Jan 2026
HEALTH workers staged a protest at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City on Wednesday, demanding the release of their medical allowance benefits ... 64,” the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) said in a statement.
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Padilla files bill for Barangay Health Workers' benefits and protection

The Manila Times 14 Jan 2026
Robinhood Padilla has filed Senate Bill (SB) 1615, proposed legislation seeking to establish a Magna Carta for Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) ... to frontline community health workers across the country.
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Migrant who entered UK saying he was a health worker was found working in a ...

The Daily Mail 13 Jan 2026
Ijaj Abid Redwan Hridoy arrived here on a health care visa but Home Office immigration enforcement officers found him working at the Junoon Indian restaurant in the village of Helsby in Cheshire ....
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