Six health unions call for a strike on Wednesday and a demonstration on the 27th

Six minority healthcare unions have called a strike day this Wednesday and one demonstration next January 27 to protest against the collective agreement of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS).

They are the unions Som Sanitat, Intersindical, CATAC-CTS, Som Intersindical, CGT and the State Union Without Us No Late La Enfermería (SESNNLLE), which reported this Monday at a press conference on the mobilizations against the agreement.

he agreement was reached at the end of 2023 the unions with representation at the negotiating table (CCOO, UGT, Metges de Catalunya and SATSE) with the Department of Health, but immediately the minority nursing union opposedInfermeres de Catalunya, which has already been on indefinite strike for a month.

now Six other minority unions have called for a day of strike this Wednesday.January 17, and they have called to participate in a demonstration on Saturday, January 27, which will start at the headquarters of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS), on Gran Vía, and will continue to Plaza Sant Jaume.

“It is a classist, unfair and discriminatory agreement”

For Intersindical spokesperson Nèstor Sastre, the “spark” that has led these unions to call for mobilizations is the ICS convention agreementque described it as “a missed opportunity”“. “He has not contributed anything at all; is a classist, unfair and discriminatory agreementand has brought out all the tensions in the system,” said the trade unionist.

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The six unions emphasize that the agreement of the agreement, signed by the main doctors union (Metges de Catalunya) and that of nurses (SATSE), does not include improvements in their opinion that are fair for a large part of the ICS employees and those with lower purchasing power, such as guards, administrators, health technicians or nursing assistants.

Also mobilized against this agreement, with their own agendas, are the minority nursing union Infermeres de Catalunya on the one hand and, on the other, the unions of nursing technicians SAE and senior health technicians SIETeSS.