{"id":1452,"date":"2016-09-16T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2016-09-16T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T22:00:24","slug":"nehawu-demand-wits-scrap-compulsory-memebership-witsmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2016\/09\/16\/nehawu-demand-wits-scrap-compulsory-memebership-witsmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nehawu demand Wits scrap compulsory membership of Witsmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">National Education and Health Workers Union (Nehawu) and Wits workers demand that Wits respects their right to choose a medical aid scheme. Yesterday, September 15, Nehawu and Wits workers marched to Solomon Mahlangu House to hand over a memorandum listing their demands. Currently workers are forced to use Witsmed. Witsmed is a medical aid programme for workers which workers feel is too expensive. They are required to pay R3 267 per a month which workers have said is half of their salary.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nehawu &amp; Wits workers:  &quot;Respect our right to  choose a scheme&quot;\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6p90BRH2C6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Education and Health Workers Union (Nehawu) and Wits workers demand that Wits respects their right to choose a medical aid scheme. Yesterday, September 15, Nehawu and Wits workers marched to Solomon Mahlangu House to hand over a memorandum listing their demands. Currently workers are forced to use Witsmed. Witsmed is a medical aid programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[153,10,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}