Sagardui regrets that the unions do not go to the sectoral table while the centrals ask for “negotiation”

Euskaraz irakurri: Sindikatuak mahai sektorialera ez joatea “ulergaitza” da Sagarduirentzat, eta horiek negoziazioa eskatu dute

Gotzone SagarduiMinister of Health, has declared that I cannot understand that the unions do not attend the meeting of the sectoral table, “when we have such important issues” on the table.

“I deeply regret if they have not attended the call for the sectoral table”, said Sagardui”, and reiterated that “our will and our outstretched hand is permanent, because we believe that it is the only way to move forward”.

According to Sagardui, the call for the meeting responds to the request of the unions to “increase the meetings due to the diversity of pending issues” and contained “most” of the issues proposed by the centrals.

Among the issues to be discussed, the counselor mentioned the stability rate, as a result of the approval of Law 20/2021 on temporary employment in the public sector, and has highlighted that the deadline for approving said position ends in June. “The opportunity that we can lose, more than 2,000 Osakidetza workers, I think it would not be beneficial, neither for the social part nor for Osakidetza, much less for the Euskadi health system”, he said.

Specific demands of the unions

satse, THE A, LAB, CCOO, UGT Y ESK they have not attended the meeting with Osakidetza, as they explained yesterday in a joint note, because “concrete proposals” on their demands were not included on the agenda.

Satse’s spokeswoman, Amaia Mayor, said, in a joint concentration at the Donostia Hospital, that Osakidetza “cannot continue to hide in inaction and turn its back on the staff”, while warning him that they will not sit “at a table that is not really” “for negotiation” and that is “only informative”.

“For the negotiation to be true, you have to send us the information beforehand,” explained Mayor, who recalled that “collective bargaining is a fundamental right.”

In this sense, he recalled that “Osakidetza has already accumulated three sentences for violation of the right to collective bargaining”, the last of them “for the closures in primary care” which, as he has revealed, is one of the points that the unions have requested that they be included and that the Department “refuses to deal with because it says they are organizational issues”, when in fact it is about “working conditions and rights of Basque citizenship”.

The centrals demand, among other issues, that the agreements reached in previous meetings be fulfilled, the situation of Primary Care and the reopening of the PACs be addressed, the staff of the Basque Center for Transfusions and Human Tissues be paid the hospital bonus of 4 % and a calendar is established to deal with the rest of the claims.