Physicians working in the Azores, the Alentejo and the Algarve are starting this Wednesday a two-day strike called by the Independent Union of Physicians (SIM) to demand that the government respond effectively to the union’s booklet.
The regional strike announced by SIM, which began at 00:00 Wednesday and will end at 24:00 Thursday, implies a “complete halt and absence from work” of doctors working in the medical institutions of the Azores Autonomous Region. in the Alentejo Regional Health Authority and in the Algarve Regional Health Authority.
The Independent Physicians’ Union, in a strike statement released 10 days ago, says “medical workers’ struggle is to force the government to respond effectively to the union’s claims.”
The doctors also state “the urgent termination of the negotiating table set up between the government and the SIM and that, in particular and as a priority, a proposal for a wage grid that restores careers accumulated losses by the force of inflationary erosion be presented by the Ministers of Finance and Health.” last decade and that with honor and justice places the entire medical class, including physicians, in a single table of public service remuneration.
On August 10, trade unions representing physicians and the government ended their fifth extraordinary negotiating meeting in Lisbon without reaching an agreement on the revision of the wage grid, the main item on the list of demands presented at the negotiating table that began in 2022, with a new negotiating meeting scheduled for 11 September.
For August and September, the Independent Union of Physicians planned strikes in other regions of the country.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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