The demonstration convened by the unions in the field of negotiation against the Framework Statute at 12:00 pm this morning in front of the Ministry of Health It will not go unnoticed. It is expected to be seconded by thousands of workers of the National Health System (SNS), of all professional categories, because what is at stake are their working conditions for the next 20 or 30 years and, therefore, health care to the population.
“Thousands workers throughout Spain are going to protest today for the abandonment to which the Ministry of Health submits. They are almost 3 years negotiating the Framework Statute and the minister intends to give folder without including essential issues,” says Fernando Hontangas, president of the Health Sector of CSIF.
Issues for all known that organizations have been demanding all this time: “Fair remuneration, reclassification and update of functions, 35 -hour day, right to early retirement and regulated, realistic and healthy days.”
The relations between the Ministry directed The main demands of the health.
Guilt, autonomies
But the drop that filled the glass was the meeting between health and the unions of the table in the scope of September 23, in which the text was presented with the incorporations of the Autonomous Communities (which Garcia had kept out of the negotiation until the last moment). A draft that, in the opinion of the trade union organizations, “presents even more fundamental deficiencies” than those already previously denounced. They assured that the text is “unable to guarantee rights or improve working conditions” of more than one million professionals who work in public health in Spain. In addition, they denounced, the modifications agreed with the autonomies “suppose a historical setback, since they will allow each community to unilaterally regulate key aspects of labor relations, which could even limit the role of autonomic sectoral tables.”
Therefore, today’s great protest is only the first step of the strategy announced this morning those responsible for the convening unions if the ministry continues with their plans and “closes the draft in false”. “The working conditions of the toilets are disastrous and, one more year, we continue without budgets. Health will explode, and we are not going to stay with crossed arms. Today’s demonstration is just a warning: we are willing to reach the end,” says Hontangas. “If we have to call a general strike in the SNS, we will do it”.
The CSIF representative will also alert today of the situation that will be lived before the imminent arrival of bad weather In health care (flu, respiratory diseases, saturation, waiting lists …) in a context of “lack of material and human means, lack of agreement between the government and the AA CCs and concern for the absence of budgets and the paralysis of the central executive.”
((H2: PP communities ask for answers)
The demonstration occurs one day before the aforementioned meeting of the Framework Forum for Social Dialogue, convened for tomorrow, that trade union organizations have assured that they will take advantage to “transfer to those responsible for the autonomous communities their current position on the new draft of the norm.”
In this sense, the Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Fatima Matute, He sent one yesterday Letter to the Minister of Health, to which the reason has had access, to claim to send to the autonomous communities the “technical, legal and economic memories that support the measures contemplated in the current draft of the Framework Statute”before tomorrow’s meeting. “These constitute the necessary basis for any rigorous, solvent and responsible assessment of the proposals proposed by the Ministry,” explains the letter. In the same line, the rest of the advisors of the autonomies governed by the PP will pronounce.
Continuing with a week that is very black for Mónica García, this Friday the second medical strike throughout the national territory in 5 months is convened, at the initiative of the Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM) and the Andalusian Medical Union (SMA), members of the strike committee. Interestingly, the Union of Physicians and Faculties of Madrid (Sime), federated in CSIT Professional Union, together with the organizations that make up the professional group by a medical and optional statute (Apemyf) have called a 24 -hour unemployment day the same day, although they distinguish it from the principal.