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Operations at three corporate area government run hospitals were affected Monday morning as some workers walked off the job.
The affected hospitals are the National Chest, the Bustamante Children's and the Kingston Public.
Workers at two of the hospitals who are contracted to LAMASA Janitorial Service were protesting against low salaries and poor working conditions.
The employees, who are assigned to the Bustamante Children's and the Kingston Public Hospitals, put down their tools of work and picked up placards.
They chanted and sang as they demonstrated in front of the both facilities citing poor working conditions and low wages.
At the Bustamante Hospital for Children, a Union Delegate told our News team that the workers are fed up with the lack of attention from the LAMASA Management.
"We having a problem with the boss, Mr. Williams, he's the owner Janitorial Company and from 2005 we have been having dialogue with him wanting some more uniform, identification. All the time he comes, he just making promises and promises, and not fulfilling any of his promises," he said.
And at the KPH Senior Negotiating Officer at the National Workers Union, Robert Harris, who led the protest said the workers are dissatisfied with the management's latest salary offer.
KPH Senior Negotiating Officer at the National Workers Union, Robert Harris said, "As it relates to salaries, the company has made a piece meal attempt to address the issue. We submitted a claim for a 30 percent increase and they have given what amounts to the same movement given by the government to the minimum wage earners."
The workers are employed as janitors and porters.
In the meantime, workers at the National Chest Hospital, Monday morning also walked off the job to protest against the absence of water at the facility.
According to a hospital spokesman the lack of water is due to a broken water main at the facility since last Wednesday.
While our news team was at the hospital, we saw patients going home claiming they could not stay there without water.
The workers say the situation is critical
A nurse at the National Chest Hospital in St. Andrew described the situation. "I took myself last night and I came back, and just to see the place very filthy, unclean and very stink. We cannot afford to be using the rain water to wash ourselves anymore. The water from the tanks is not clean as every time the rain falls, the debris falls into the tanks as there is now shelter other than the little gate right there and I want something to be done now."
The affected hospitals are the National Chest, the Bustamante Children's and the Kingston Public.
Workers at two of the hospitals who are contracted to LAMASA Janitorial Service were protesting against low salaries and poor working conditions.
The employees, who are assigned to the Bustamante Children's and the Kingston Public Hospitals, put down their tools of work and picked up placards.
They chanted and sang as they demonstrated in front of the both facilities citing poor working conditions and low wages.
At the Bustamante Hospital for Children, a Union Delegate told our News team that the workers are fed up with the lack of attention from the LAMASA Management.
"We having a problem with the boss, Mr. Williams, he's the owner Janitorial Company and from 2005 we have been having dialogue with him wanting some more uniform, identification. All the time he comes, he just making promises and promises, and not fulfilling any of his promises," he said.
And at the KPH Senior Negotiating Officer at the National Workers Union, Robert Harris, who led the protest said the workers are dissatisfied with the management's latest salary offer.
KPH Senior Negotiating Officer at the National Workers Union, Robert Harris said, "As it relates to salaries, the company has made a piece meal attempt to address the issue. We submitted a claim for a 30 percent increase and they have given what amounts to the same movement given by the government to the minimum wage earners."
The workers are employed as janitors and porters.
In the meantime, workers at the National Chest Hospital, Monday morning also walked off the job to protest against the absence of water at the facility.
According to a hospital spokesman the lack of water is due to a broken water main at the facility since last Wednesday.
While our news team was at the hospital, we saw patients going home claiming they could not stay there without water.
The workers say the situation is critical
A nurse at the National Chest Hospital in St. Andrew described the situation. "I took myself last night and I came back, and just to see the place very filthy, unclean and very stink. We cannot afford to be using the rain water to wash ourselves anymore. The water from the tanks is not clean as every time the rain falls, the debris falls into the tanks as there is now shelter other than the little gate right there and I want something to be done now."