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WHY I MAY NOT SUPPORT DOCTOR'S AND DON'S CBA BASED STRIKES

Doctors and Professors are the intelligentsia that should see beyond petty and short term. If they really care we should see them engage on systemic things that help us answer a question like "when did a salary of 40, 000 plus allowances per month for use by one household become peanuts"? A sick intelligentsia is one only seeing black and white and no grey. CBA or no CBA, the good of all sectors of this economy are tied to havi ng a healthy economy. A healthy economy by all standards is characterized by patient labour. Patient labour is one whose demands, hence the wage bill, do not impede growth and development. While respecting the sanctity of CBA, it pays to appreciate that they are negotiated within contexts and by people whose appreciation of wider socioeconomic issues may be limited. The sickness began with Mpigs astronomically increasing their salaries, MCAs followed cue, teachers followed then lectures and doctors; not forgetting civil servants waiti