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Nurses, doctors and other health workers have been demonstrating and taking strike action around the country in a campaign to win higher pay. So far the government has offered to increase pay by 15% over the next three years. A group of around 200 nurses has been camped outside the prime minister's office for several weeks with a small number even briefly threatening a hunger strike over the issue.
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Qualified nurses employed in the Basel region have been regarded and their new pay rates will be backdated to 1 April 2004. The Basel regional employers finally conceded that there were clear and good reasons for this predominantly female workforce to be moved up the pay scale in recognition of the specialist knowledge required for the job. Read more at > VPOD (DE)
After five bargaining rounds and warning strikes by members, services union ver.di has secured a pay increase for workers in the private waste sector. There will be a €50 lump sum to cover the first three months of 2015 and then a 3% pay increase from 1 April 2015 and then 1.8% from 1 January 2016. The agreement runs until 31 December 2016. Apprentices will get a 10% pay rise along with the €50 lump sum. Read more at > ver.di (DE)
The DSR nurses’ union organised industrial action on Saturday 19 June following a two to one membership vote to reject a conciliator's mediation proposal for a new agreement. Earlier this year the DSR membership rejected the main municipal and regional government collective agreement, calling for a higher pay rise for nurses. The conciliation process failed to deliver a result that the membership could endorse and so action involving around 5000 nurses went ahead. The union argues that the health services have been starved of investment and nurses have faced increasing work pressure and
