The workers grouped in the health assembly, residents and attendees of the hospitals of the City of Buenos Aires (CABA), gathered this Thursday in the vicinity of the Buenos Aires Obelisk, on the tenth day of its cessation of activities, demanding wage increases, union spokespersons reported.
After concentrating on the Obelisk – where there were delays for vehicular traffic – the workers in the sector plan to go to the headquarters of the Ministry of Health of the City of Buenos Aires, located on Bolívar 1, to demand a new meeting with the authorities. of the Buenos Aires government.
“We are concentrating on the Obelisk, we will stay here for a while, and later we are going to go to Bolívar 1, waiting for a date for the meeting with the government authorities who promised us and did not deliver,” Vanesa Fauda told Télam , Resident of Children’s Nephrology at Hospital Garrahan.
In addition, in a press release, the health workers of CABA expressed: “Today we mobilize again to the Obelisk and to Bolívar 1, since the government closed all channels of dialogue with residents and attendees. We demand that they include us in negotiation since we are actors involved in the conflict”.
The conflict is in the seventh week of the struggle for the claim of salary recomposition, salary and ART.
The resident and concurrent physicians will claim for the “Breach of the 96-hour deadline” to be summoned to a new meeting with the Buenos Aires government and denounced that the Chief of Staff, Felipe Miguel, the head of the Health portfolio, Fernán Quirós, and the Minister of Economy, Martín Mura, together with the Association of Municipal Doctors (AMM) held a meeting “behind the back” of the CABA Assembly of residents and attendees.
“He had told us that the meeting would take place at the Government Headquarters. In the early hours of the day we were informed of the change of meeting place and we were not allowed to enter,” they said.
In this framework, the Federation of Professionals called for a strike and will accompany the mobilization.
“We demand that AMM also call a strike so that all health workers can fight together,” they remarked.
The conflict is in the seventh week of the fight for the claim of salary recomposition, salary and ART for concurrents before the response by the management of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta that they considered “shameful”.
“We aim to continue building instances of dialogue and negotiation for the prompt resolution of the conflict”Federation of Professionals
“Today we residents charge $300 an hour and the concurrent $0, doing guard duty 24 and up to 48 hours in a row. After Quirós’s shameful offer, which leaves us at $440 an hour, we continue to fight together with all health sectors for a minimum equal to the family basket, which in CABA does not fall below 250 thousand pesos,” they detailed.
And they concluded: “We aim to continue building instances of dialogue and negotiation for the prompt resolution of the conflict.”
