The Portuguese Nurses Union (SEP) said this Friday that it will continue the strike on May 10, after a meeting with the Minister of Health Ana Paula Martins, saying that nurses “want answers much faster.”
“The Ministry of Health did not commit this Friday, until May 10, the day of the national nurses’ strike, to define all the issues to be discussed, the topics for negotiations and the agenda for negotiations,” said AKP President José Carlos Martins, who is leaving the Ministry of Health in Lisbon.
The AKP has planned a national strike for May 10, with a rally at 11 a.m. at Campo Pequeno in Lisbon.
“The problems are so well known and so serious, there is so much injustice and discrimination, that nurses want answers much more quickly,” he stressed.
According to José Carlos Martins, the Ministry of Health and the government “have not committed to negotiate,” among other things, about scoring and the transition to a nursing career.
“He did not undertake to discuss this, to record these topics in the negotiation protocol until May 10, which is pushing us to deliver this blow,” he emphasized.
José Carlos Martins, however, recalled that the Ministry of Health has “the desire to continue the negotiations in order to consolidate the existing issues in the negotiation protocol,” but “this is incompatible with the urgency that the nurses feel.”
“No prospect of a new meeting was on the agenda before May 10 and so we continue to comply with the demands of expressing nurses’ grievances so that a solution to the problems can be quickly agreed upon. problems,” he said.
This Friday, the Minister of Health meets for the first time with unions representing doctors, nurses and pharmacists and begins negotiations on the wages demanded by the union structures.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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