The unions will initiate a dynamic of mobilizations in Osakidetza to demand negotiations and protect public health.
Labor unions SATSE, ELA, LAB, SME, CCOO and UGT They have started a mobilization dynamic in Osakidetza and the first call will be Thursday, December 22. They have called for a focus on all workplaces in Osakidetza, “to demand negotiations and protect public health”.
They have insisted on the need to “overcome the blockade of the Sector Table” to democratize Osakidetza, for which promote genuine negotiation and with substance together with the representatives of the workers.
remember that the trade unions came from the Sector Table at the beginning of the year and did the same after the summer. Likewise, and aiming to unblock the situation, they have called Osakidetza management “twice” to hold a meeting at the Labor Relations Council, and “it has not attended a single meeting”.
The last time, on December 7, they met with the head of the Ministry of Health, chaired by the adviser, and they have “the no need for dialogue of the department and the firm commitment to the impositionthen noted.
“The verticality and impose starting with the Osakidetza directorate, but extending to the entire internal structure of the Basque health service,” they added.
The unions have emphasized that job insecurity remains “one of the biggest problems of our public health”. “a temporary rate of more than 50%, a loss of purchasing power of more than 20% in a decade, a systematic overload of work and a shortage of labor”. Meanwhile, “the restrictions applied are still in place” in the PACs of Deusto, Zumarraga and San Martín, in the emergencies of the Hospital de Santiago and in the project to close cardiac surgery in Basurto.
In response to this reality, they believe it is essential to address a mobilization dynamic that brings workers and citizens together. As a first step, concentrations have been called for in all Osakidetza work centers for the December 22, Thursday, at 11 a.m. in all hospitals and at 1 p.m. in all primary care centers.
After Christmas, the mobilizations will continue so that workers and citizens “fill the streets in defense of public health”.
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Source: EITB
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