Health Care actions launched in Hungary: call for solidarity from EPSU affiliate

The National Strike Committee of EDDSZ (hereinafter referred to as Strike Committee) calls all the county level presidents an officers of EDDSZ to make the National Call for Strike, the National Declaration of Solidarity and the Resolutions of the Strike Committee on 12 August available at all the workplaces belonging to our sector. We would like to have reports on such institutions where employers prevent us from doing this in order to block us to turn to the public and be able to exercise employees' rights.

-# The Strike Committee requests leaders of healthcare and social institutions that they should not maintain operation by decreasing the salary and number of employees, but rather they should make measures directly or through their organisations to the government requesting funding that establishes quality public service
-# The Strike Committee requests the employers of the healthcare and social sector that all disadvantageous voluntary „promotions”, labour contracts or amendments to them that clearly lead to decrease in salaries should be stopped, by reestablishment of the original conditions of the contracts, and immediately pay for the damages
-# The Strike Committee requests all the trade unions of the sector to accept our national strike demands and make their best to mobilize their membership
-# The Strike Committee requests the Hungarian Chamber of Doctors and the Hungarian Hospital Association to participate in the negotiation with the government just as they did in December 2000
-# The Strike Committee requests the county presidents of EDDSZ to review the established strike committees as of 23 August, and in institutions where no strike committee operates, they should initiate to establish them
-# The Strike Committee requests the county presidents of EDDSZ to review the cooperation agreements with the Hungarian Chamber of Doctors as of 23 August, and where no cooperation agreements exist they should initiate to conclude them
-# The Strike Committee asks the President of EDDSZ to initiate concluding agreements with the President of the Hungarian Chamber of Doctors where no such agreement exists yet