Today Health and unions in the negotiation area of the new framework status have reached a pre-agreement What does the s mean?suspension of strikes planned for next Januarythus allowing the processing of the new Status to move forward with stability, as advanced by the Ministry of Health.
The department of Mónica García managed to close a roadmap with SATSE-FSES, FSS-CCOO, UGT, CSIF and CIG-Saúdewho expressed their support for the draft new framework status, explicitly excluding its withdrawaldespite the requests made by certain autonomous communities governed by the People’s Party.
Among the commitments incorporated in the agreement, as highlighted by García’s ministry in a press release, is the creation of a regular working day of 35 hours per weekwhich will be applied according to the modalities defined in the corresponding areas of negotiation, taking into account the organizational and health needs of the health services.
However, the Group for Physician and Practitioner Status (APEMYF), which brings together 16 medical organizations from across the country, including AMYTS, which The pre-agreement was concluded with non-medical trade union organizationsthe strike is therefore maintained for January 14 and 15. Ángela Hernández, general secretary of AMYTS and spokesperson for APEMYF, explains that without knowing the details of this prior agreement, “the only thing that we consider as a certain improvement is the return to the 35-hour working day.” As long as “the day of guarding continues, we are clear that we will have to continue the days of protest,” announces Hernández.
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In this pre-agreement, it is also considers access to partial retirement for all statutory staff which meets the requirements established by current Social Security regulations. At the same time, it opens up the possibility of establish early retirement for professional categories that meet legal requirementsafter carrying out an in-depth study of working conditions throughout the national health system.
THE matters which are not part of the field of competence of the Ministry of Health and which, as a result, are not included in the text of the Framework Statute, will be addressed within the framework of a specific agreement. This agreement will aim to guide future negotiations concerning the establishment of a new remuneration model applicable to all staff of the National Health System.
A final agreement before the Christmas period and there will be no medical strike in January
Unions in the negotiation zone have confirmed the pre-agreement and hope to hold further meetings with the Ministry of Health to reach a final agreement before December 23. “We have managed to make progress on fundamental aspects that we had pending (…). We may be able to suspend the strike planned for the end of January if everything we have agreed is reflected in the text,” indicated the head of Health of CSIF, Fernando Hontangas.
Reaching a point of conciliation means, first of all, canceling the protest agendas that the unions had scheduled for the beginning of the year, after last week’s four days of protest. The Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM) highlighted the success of the doctors’ demands and celebrated “the enormous follow-up as a demonstration that the fight against the framework statute project does not stop.”
This the protest campaign started almost a year ago and this has included regional rallies and in front of the ministry in Madrid, demonstrations, two previous days of strike on June 13 And October 3a large demonstration on November 15 of the Congress of Deputies at the Ministry of Health.
The protests also involved professional representation bodies, and not just unions. In this case, the The Medical Profession Forum has publicly expressed its support for the national strike days of doctors and practitioners. Represented here: the General Council of Official Medical Associations (CGCOM), the Federation of Scientific Medical Associations of Spain (FACME), the Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM), the National Conference of Deans of Medical Faculties (CNDFM) and the State Council of Medical Students (CEEM).
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