A strike planned for 22 January has been postponed while further conciliation talks take place. One of our epsucob@ contacts in Estonia, Iia Täks, provided this report on the dispute over pay. The main purpose of the strike is to achieve fulfillment of the effective pay agreement and pay demands of health workers' unions and conclude a new pay agreement for 2007 and 2008. The previous agreement, signed in 2004, expired on 31 December 2006. In early January, in a bid to avert a looming strike, the employers from Estonian Hospitals' Association offered to raise minimum hourly salaries to 90