Pamplona (EFE) scheduled for the 23rd.
According to the signatory unions, part of the demands demanded by the inter-union are managed through this agreement. However, the other three unions present in the strike committee, ELA, CCOO and SAE, have denounced in a note that it is an “empty” and “interested” agreement.
Non-signatories will propose new strike days
Likewise, these three organizations announce that they will explore the possibility of holding protests against the agreement on the same day, March 23, and will propose new strike days.
In the document, according to the signatories, there is a commitment by the Department regarding the reinforcement of the workforce. Also on the study of work overload in Primary and Specialized Care, implementation of the professional career for health personnel who do not perceive it and non-health personnel.
To this is added the payment of special holidays to the entire workforce with the same amount for everyone, as well as the maintenance of exclusivity and the review of the framework of Health personnel within the framework of the general table, among other issues.
From the two union centrals “that have a majority in the Osasunbidea inter-union union” they will demand at all times that the commitments made to the entire workforce are fulfilled and will not allow the agreed promises to be breached.
UGT and LAB see “sufficient guarantees” in the agreement
“We understand that sufficient guarantees are given both by the Department of Health and political commitment to accept the agreement. In any case, the Health sector table will be urgently convened to begin to address issues. We understand that signing the agreement requires an intrinsic responsibility that both unions are willing to assume”, they state.
ELA denounces that the agreement reached between Osasunbidea, LAB and UGT is an “empty” agreement that does not imply any improvement for the conditions of the workforce. “It is an imprecise document and full of generalities that does not commit Osasunbidea in any way”, he adds. CCOO considers that “the agreement does not end with the precariousness of some posts in Osasunbidea”.
Regarding the professional career, ELA and CCOO criticize that “it is unequivocally established that its implementation will depend on ‘there being a budget allocation’. From then on, Osasunbidea’s only commitments are to ‘submit a draft text for discussion, propose an allocation in the 2024 budget and submit a draft foral law’”
ELA considers it “very serious” that LAB, in addition to signing the agreement, has decided to call off the strike, with the intention of preventing non-signatory unions from carrying it out. Both unions denounce that political pressure has been behind the signing of the agreement.
Nor have the Nursing Technicians signed
From the Union of Nursing Technicians it is indicated that they have not signed the document “in an exercise of coherence and responsibility” since “it does not include the proposals that led to the mobilization of professionals both on the day of the strike and the concentrations in the health centers or in the demonstration held last Saturday in defense of quality public health and decent working conditions.
In his opinion, “there is nothing new that justifies calling off the strike and even some of the points that are going to be approved this Thursday in Parliament maintain and increase grievances regarding the improvements that other groups have experienced,” he warns.