The Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM) and the Andalusian Medical Union (SMA) have referred to as for 4 consecutive days of nationwide strikes, starting this Tuesday December ninth and ending on Friday, December twelfth.
This is the third walkout because of the reform of the Framework Statute, following these on October third and June thirteenth of this yr.
While healthcare professionals have lengthy been calling for a reform, they consider the budgetary modifications will jeopardise enhancements in working circumstances and healthcare providers.
The CESM has deliberate demonstrations throughout all areas of Spain, which is able to have an effect on many residents.
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In Madrid, the Amyts union has referred to as for a demonstration in entrance of the Congress of Deputies on Tuesday December ninth at 10 am, adopted by a march to the headquarters of the Ministry of Health on the Paseo del Prado.
This comes after nearly three years of negotiations and greater than 60 conferences between the Ministry of Health, unions and strike committees, who’re making an attempt to return to an settlement on the Statue, which has been in pressure since 2003.
The unions consider that fundamental salaries ought to mirror the brand new classification framework for workers throughout the National Health System. They additionally intention to ascertain rules that assure a “respectable and sufficient” work schedule, which permit for a stability of labor and household life, and a voluntary early and partial retirement.
Currently, healthcare employees work a regular 37.5-hour week, not together with necessary on-call shifts , which differ relying on the precise division, which means there isn’t a outlined restrict.
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According to CESM, the most recent draft “doesn’t classify on-call obligation as extraordinary exercise, nor does it assure remuneration above the strange hourly charge, nor that these hours rely as time labored for retirement, nor a transparent and well-defined schedule to ascertain their voluntary nature.”
Doctors and unions complain that these further shifts should not included in Social Security contributions, and whereas they’re taxed, they aren’t counted as working time.
The Ministry of Health, led by Mónica García, believes that it “has reached the utmost doable improvement throughout the limits of a fundamental state regulation, establishing a typical framework with out encroaching on regional powers”.
“Blocking the approval of the brand new Framework Statute attributable to calls for exterior the scope of its competence would imply shedding a historic alternative for reform that we have now been ready for, for 20 years,” she added.
If the unions nonetheless can’t attain an settlement after the most recent stoppages, nationwide protests might have an effect on healthcare services for a major time period transferring ahead.
