The convening unions denounce that, despite the fact that Osakidetza has increased the companies’ financing by 30%, employers maintain a “permanent blockage” in the negotiations and refuse to give in to their demands.
After the mobilizations of recent weeks, the CAV ambulances celebrate the first of today three days of strike: October 9, 10 and 11—, convened by the trade unions ELA, LSB-USO, LAB, UGT, CC.OO. for him “to block” in negotiations with employers.
In the joint note announcing the call, the trade union centers denounced that “25 negotiating table meetings and more than one and a half years have passed for the signing of the new regional agreement.” All this time, the ambulance employers have maintained a ‘permanent blockade’ without responding to their demands and ‘benefiting from acts of sabotage that have nothing to do with the negotiations on the agreement to block it’. They demand, among other things, equalization of the conditions of the medical transport staff with the conditions of the Osakidetza staff, the maintenance of purchasing power of the templates and the guarantee of compliance with the agreement.
‘We are aware that the company They increased funding by 30% In this new struggle, and as workers are forced to work increasingly poorly paid jobs to make ends meet, the wage situation for workers has continued to deteriorate as the wide variation in the CPI accumulates around the 10-year mark. 12% purchase loss in just two years,” they said.
Furthermore, they criticize that companies “receive funding not only from public competitions, but also from private competitions (football matches, popular festivals, concerts, etc.) using the personnel assigned to the specifications to provide services”, something they claim. is ‘an illegal practice’.
Health requires the rejection of violence
The Basque Ministry of Health has called on unions calling for strikes in medical transport to speak publicly anonymous calls spread through social networks in which incitement to the use of violence against people and property in support of the strikes.
Through a note, Salud has spoken out against these videos, assuring that “the use of weapons of type 4 and lower level”, citing “knives, clubs, gasoline and Molotov cocktails are allowed during the attack” and there it adds that “any crime against the assets of the companies (recipients of the service) will be legal.”
Health has warned that calling strikes and work stoppages is “a right that helps workers and that no one disputes”, but specifies that “the invitation to use violence against people and property and, consequently, the provision of minimal services is unacceptable” and must be ” received the outright reproach from all parties involved in collective bargaining.”
Finally, he made it clear that the department “guarantees health care for all patients at all times” and that it will guarantee this service, “particularly necessary for vulnerable people.”
Source: EITB
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