Cleaning ladies of the Osakidetza camp in front of the Hospital de Cruces for the agreement and approval

Cleaners from Osakidetza, on strike, called by LAB, UGT, CCOO and ESKstarted this Monday with a camp in front of the Hospital de Cruces in Barakaldo in defense of their agreement and to demand the homologation of employment conditions those of the Basque Health Service’s own staff.

Thus, they will spend the nights and 24 hours a day in the camping that started today. In addition, they have developed a program in which they will perform differently daily activities and mobilizations.

In a statement, the convening unions recalled that the employees of the companies that received the Osakidetza cleaning service, on strike for more than a month and a half in defense of his contract.

In this sense, they have denounced that “both Osakidetza’s companies and management are violate the approval principle by refusing to conform and applying “to cleaning staff” the various subjects that applied to Osakidetza’s own staff”.

The workers, they have warned, are not demanding issues “beyond homologation, they are simply demanding maintain homologation of conditions for Osakidetza’s own personnelsuch as access to the different calls for professional careers or partial retirement linked to the reception contract, a fairer and more objective system for filling vacancies”.

“We ask that we have the same conditions for the same workthey have noted, denouncing that the winning companies and Osakidetza’s management are “throwing the ball to each other”, while the cleaning workers are being subjected to “a real injustice that goes on unnecessarily”.

The trade union centers have found the PNV’s attitude “offensive and shameful”.since, “in light of a labor dispute that has been going on for more than a year, the Ministry of Health has looked the other way and has shown total indifference and disregard for the workers and Osakidetza’s management has not responded to the formal requests for a meeting, which have ended up in the trash,” they denounced.

Osakidetza hopes that workers and companies will come to an agreement

Osakidetza’s management, for its part, has stressed that it is the companies contracted to carry out the cleaning in their facilities and the unions that must reach an agreement to end the strike and hopes that this agreement will come soon .

“As the Ministry of Health, we respect both the framework of labor relations and the right to strike exercised by the people who work in these companies,” he assured in a note.