The FSS-CCOO and FSP-UGT federations have raised serious questions about effective consultation and collective bargaining in the national health service. The two union organisations withdrew from a recent meeting Consultative Committee of the national health service's Interterritorial Council because five issues on the agenda affecting employment and working conditions of health staff had not been properly dealt with in the appropriate national health service negotiations.
Read more at > FSP-UGT (ES)
And at > FSS-CCOO (ES)
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