The unions will initiate a dynamic of mobilizations in Osakidetza, to demand negotiation and protect public health.
Unions SATSE, ELA, LAB, SME, CCOO and UGT They have started a mobilization dynamic in Osakidetza, and the first call will be this Thursday, December 22. They have called to concentrate on all the workplaces in Osakidetza, “to demand negotiation and protect public health.”
They have insisted on the need to “overcome the blockade of the Sector Table” to democratize Osakidetza, for which promote a real negotiation and with contents together with the representatives of the workers.
remember that the unions rose from the Sector Table at the beginning of the year and did the same after the summer. Likewise, and with the aim of unblocking the situation, they have called the 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 Department of Health, chaired by the counselor, and they have denounced “the no desire for dialogue of the Department and the firm commitment to the imposition” observed then.
“The verticality and imposition begin with the Osakidetza Directorate, but extend to the entire internal structure of the Basque Health Service”, they added.
The unions have stressed that job insecurity continues to be “one of the biggest problems of our public health”, with “a temporary rate of more than 50%, a loss of purchasing power of more than 20% in a decade, a systematic work overload and a shortage of workers”. Meanwhile, “the restrictions applied are still in force” in the PACs of Deusto, Zumarraga and San MartÃn, in the emergencies of the Hospital de Santiago and in the project to close heart surgery in Basurto.
In response to this reality, they consider it essential to address a mobilization dynamic that brings together workers and citizens. As a first step, concentrations have been called in all Osakidetza work centers for the December 22, Thursday, at 11:00 a.m. in all hospitals and at 1:00 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”.
Source: Eitb
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