Osakidetza sector table meeting ends without agreement

The unions ELA, SATSE, LAB, CC. OO. and UGT have left the sectoral table of Osakidetza, which met this morning in Vitoria-Gasteiz, because of “the futile intention of negotiating in a genuine, effective and serious manner” by the Ministry of Health, which for its part regretted that the unions have leaving the table “disabling dialogue and agreement on issues affecting the workforce”.

The Ministry of Health is considering that Osakidetza “cannot apply the 4% hospitalization allowance to groups that do not perform specialized activities related to hospital activities.”

Regarding the conclusion of the pre-contract on the professional career, Osakidetza’s management believes that the extraordinary appeal “could not have been made earlier than last December due to the pandemic and due to the complex legal and administrative management, but that it is now can be completed in accordance with the existing preliminary agreement,” the health ministry said in a statement.

In this sense, he recalled that Osakidetza has announced that “it is ready to execute the call in the coming months and complete payment in full this year”, just as the Basque health service believes that “it is essential to discuss the design of a new professional career model, a subject that was also included in the preliminary agreement with the trade unions”.

Finally, the Ministry of Health has stated that the unions’ stance, “due to their interest in justifying the strike calls and portraying instability, prevents the rest of the pending issues from being discussed and that They are of vital importance, such as the possibility and pace of stabilization, transfer competition, licensing or the unification of the cardiac surgery service in Bizkaia”.

For his part, unions have Osakidetza. accused of “not intending to negotiate in a genuine, effective, serious and substantive manner” and have therefore left the sector table.

In a joint statement, the union centers stated that the hopes that Osakidetza had turned 180 degrees in his “immobile posture lasted only a few hours”, and warned that the sectoral table has shown that the Service Directorate Vasco de Salud “has no real willingness to negotiate”.

“An attitude that has failed the meeting with the unions, for which SATSE, ELA, LAB, CCOO and UGT have been forced to get up from the table and leave,” they explained.

The unions have stated that it is “more than clear that without proposals and without concrete facts, beyond good words” “a real and effective negotiation” cannot take place.

Osakidetza showed it again hours after we sent him a letter reminding him of our most important demands, which include the priority fulfillment of agreements reached in the same forum and the closure of open conflicts such as those existing in the primary care, where we ask for the recovery of schedules and the reopening of the PACs (continuous points of care), and in the Basque Center for Transfusions and Human Tissues with the clearance of 4%, in addition to the immediate payment of the Urduliz shift”, have them detailed.

As they have influenced, among these issues there is also the requirement to increase the Osakidetza budget for the fiscal year 2023, “until the EU average (7% of GDP) is reached, with 25% of it allocated to primary care “, as well as adapting the sizing of the templates with the creation of “thousands of jobs, allowing to rationalize the workload and put an end to the temporariness of more than 24,600 employees”.

The unions also demand, among other things, the restoration of “lost purchasing power” and the reversal of “all cuts”, including those on professional development.

Satse, ELA, LAB, CCOO and UGT have also argued that “many of these issues have been discussed before at the sectoral table of Osakidetza and are easily solvable from the will”.

“Osakidetza went to confirm during the meeting that he cannot accept some claims because they are not budgeted, unbearable confirmations if we consider that yesterday the counsel Pedro Azpiazu boasted that he had saved 605 million euros,” they said. have criticized.

Finally, they asked the Ministry of Health that if Osakidetza “is not a good interlocutor to find firm solutions to the many open conflicts with workers and Basque citizens, they should consider looking for another person or persons to conduct these negotiations.” to be carried out.” and respect the right to collective bargaining”.