The SATSE-FSES, CCOO, UGT, CSIF CIG-Saúde unions demonstrated this Friday their satisfaction with the new wording of the framework statute that the Ministry of Health presented to them, with which They will meet on Monday to discuss the remuneration model, essential to sealing the deal.
During their meeting this Friday, Health and the unions as part of this negotiation examined together the ministry’s proposal which integrates the improvements which were agreed last Monday concerning the 35-hour working week, the possibility of access to partial and early retirement and the salary recognition which must accompany the new professional reclassification model.
Concerning the first two points, The organizations left the meeting with “some satisfaction”, because the new project introduces all its demands, said Laura Villaseñor, president of the Satse nursing unions, in statements to the media. Thus, the question of the new professional classification model and the corresponding remuneration associated with each of them remains unresolved, the examination of which will begin next Monday.
These unions are “aware” that this article cannot be included as such in the draft framework law, which is why they are requesting an opinion from Health. “binding” side agreement this involves the relevant ministries, such as those of Finance or the Civil Service.
Without this agreement, “there will be no endorsement of the framework status”.
it will depend on all that the call to strike that they have planned for the entire National Health System on January 27, for the moment “on hold”.
The one who does the doctors’ strike continues that, on the one hand, have programmed the CESM and the SMA, which broke off their relations with the ministry after its refusal to establish a parallel dialogue table outside the unions in the area to negotiate the conditions of doctors and translate them into their own statute.
The two unions, responsible for last week’s four-day strike and which They haven’t set the new schedule yet During the mobilizations, they stood up from the meeting they had with the minister on Wednesday and accused her of “dynamizing any desire for dialogue”. Also still standing, for the moment, is the one convened by Apemyf, made up of around twenty union and non-union organizations, for January 14 and 15.
He The Ministry also invited this association to a meeting next Monday. Regarding the protests by medical unions, Villaseñor insisted that it was the grassroots organizations that gained representation in the elections to negotiate this law. As representatives, they try to obtain “the best possible text for the common good, for all professionals and so that it is a law which really improves health care and the care provided to the population”.
The president of the CSIF National Health Area, Fernando Hontagas, applauded that “The negotiations are going quite well, with the intention of bringing them to a satisfactory conclusion.”” and without being disturbed by the mobilizations called by other medical unions. Hontagas expressed his “maximum respect” for the demands of all groups, but stressed that the field unions also represent “doctors, senior technicians, the media, guards, management and service staff”.
“Our path is firm and determined in this sense working conditions of all categories are recognizedSATSE-FSES, CCOO, UGT, CSIF CIG-Saúde, he continued, will present “plausible” demands. “The others, if they want to make other proposals that are not so realistic, it’s up to them,” he concluded.
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