CAR: Unionized healthcare workers plan to strike nationwide June 1-3

Unionized healthcare workers affiliated with the Autonomous Union of Health Personnel (Syndicat autonome des personnels de sante) plan to strike nationwide June 1-3. The labor action aims to improve working conditions, establish a guideline for professional healthcare employees, and integrate contract workers into public service, among other demands; however, healthcare providers will maintain minimum healthcare services for emergency purposes during the strike action. Moreover, union leaders have threatened to prolong the strike if their demands are unmet.

Unless averted, the strike will likely prompt widespread disruptions to medical services nationwide; healthcare facilities will almost certainly continue to provide urgent care. Striking workers could picket outside hospitals and clinics, as well as near Ministry of Health offices. Heightened security and localized transport disruptions are possible near any demonstrations that may materialize.