The strike will not affect services related to the covid pandemic, screening, extractions and vaccination, where the Basque Government has set minimum services of 100%, as well as in the Continuous Care Points (PAC), emergencies and in the cleaning.
Satse, ELA, LAB, CCOO and UGT have convened for this Monday a strike in the Osakidetza complexa strike to ask the Basque Government improvements in public health after the one held last Friday at Primary Care.
the strike will not affect services related to the covid pandemicscreening, extractions and vaccination, where the Basque Government has set minimum services of 100%, as in the Continuous Care Points (PAC)the emergencies and in the cleaning. Meanwhile, in the health centers the staff who usually do it on a Saturday must work and half in the telephone service.
The unions denounce “the malaise and the weariness” of both the workforce and the citizenry and criticize that the Department of Health has not taken “a single step” nor has it proposed “a single measure” to reverse “the dismantling and the precariousness that devastate the public health system”.
They reproach the “absolute lack of planning for the generational change of a workforce” and warn that the precariousness and workload are causing Osakidetza professionals in Primary Care to leave their positions towards specialized care, private healthcare or abroad.
They claim the Osakidetza budget increase for next year until reaching the EU average of 7% of GDP, increase the workforce to rationalize workloads and improve the quality of attention to citizens and end the temporary employment of more than 24,600 workers until it is reduced to 8%, among other measures.
The previous specific strike in Osakidetza took place on January 28 of last yearalthough health system workers also joined another strike in the entire public sector of Euskadi that was called on April 22 of the same year.
The strike last Friday in the Primary Care it was seconded by approximately 30% of the staff according to Osakidetza and 70% according to the organizers.
Between the two strikes, this Saturday the unions have held demonstrations in the three Basque capitals with the slogan “For decent working conditions” in which several thousand people have expressed to the Basque Government that they will not allow it to continue with the “dismantling” of public health.
Source: Eitb
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