Over 2,400 out of 6,500 hospital doctors are taking part in a mass resignation protest that could see them leave their posts as of 1 December. The protest is against government plans to turn hospitals into joint stock companies and is calling for higher pay for health workers and increase health funding. The health minister is touring hospitals to try to persuade doctors to withdraw their resignations.
Read more at > Slovak Spectator news website (EN)
Health minister tours hospitals to tackle doctors' protest
More like this
Union strike bus continues its tour
The vpod/ssp public services union has launched an organising and collective bargaining initiative to boost the level of activism in the union across the country. The aim is to talk to members and workers at local level to find out the main issues of concern and discuss what can be done in response. Pay and staffing levels have unsurprisingly emerged among the hottest issues as the bus has made its way through health and social care workplaces in Basel, Bern and the regions of Solothurn and St.Gallen. However, workers have also raised concerns about fair working hours, having proper breaks
Landmark agreement for hospital doctors
The vida services union has a negotiated a collective agreement covering doctors employed by Viennese religious, non-profit hospitals. It sees this as a real milestone from the trade union point of view, filling an important gap in the collective bargaining landscape. The agreement provides, for the first time a transparent pay structure and framework of other employment conditions where there had been widely differing pay and conditions across the eight individual hospitals in the organisation. The arrangements are also comparable to those in the public sector. [Read more at > vida (DE)->http