The health ministry has scheduled new meetings with doctors’ unions for next week after the last meetings called for in the minutes of the talks ended this Friday without an agreement, a ministry official said.
Next Wednesday, the ministry is already meeting with the Independent Union of Physicians (SIM), which this Friday announced a nationwide strike for July 25, 26 and 27, the source said.
With the National Federation of Doctors (FNAM), whose strike is scheduled for July 5 and 6 and which is meeting with its National Council on Saturday to decide on new ways to fight, the ministry is meeting on July 7 and 11.
The two trade unions of doctors held this Friday, the last day of the deadline stipulated by the protocol of negotiations, new negotiation meetings with the Ministry of Health on career development, but the parties did not reach an agreement.
Among the various issues under negotiation is a revision of the salary scale for National Health Service clinicians, which the Independent Union of Physicians (SIM) and the National Federation of Physicians (FNAM) consider necessary for an agreement with the government.
In recent months, two trade union structures have criticized the Ministry of Health for not formalizing a concrete wage increase proposal.
FNAM has already announced a strike for July 5 and 6 and has offered the possibility of further strikes in August unless an agreement is reached to raise wages and improve working conditions for all doctors in the National Health Service.
SIM, on the other hand, after meeting with the ministry, scheduled a nationwide strike for July 25, 26 and 27.
Following the resignation of Marta Temido at the end of August 2022, the negotiation process was delayed until November, when negotiations officially began after unions criticized the “silence” of the new team of minister Manuel Pizarro.
At the same time, the minister guaranteed that he was going into this process “with an open heart” in order to improve the career of doctors, but the trade unions already at the first meetings asked the Government to expedite the implementation of their proposals. .
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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