Health workers grouped in the Buenos Aires City Hospitals Association of the Association of State Workers (ATE) carry out this Tuesday a stoppage of activities demanding an “urgent increase in wages, with a floor of 200 thousand pesos” and “immediate incorporation” of new professionals, both residents and attendees, will add a new day of struggle, and all sectors, including the Nursing Graduates Association (ALE), will come together in a mobilization that will take place during the morning towards the headquarters of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health , located in Bolivar 1.
“Today we had a great call together with the press that accompanied us. We will carry out a general strike this Tuesday together with a significant number of sister union organizations that represent the workers of all the hospitals in the City of Buenos Aires,” Héctor Ortiz, state leader of ATE-Capital in the health area and a referent, told Télam Association of Hospitals of the City of Buenos Aires (CABA).
Meanwhile, workers gathered in the health assembly, residents and attendees of the hospitals of the City of Buenos Aires (CABA), continued this Monday with the strike that they maintain for an indefinite period of time and confirmed the call for a mobilization for today , which will have as a meeting point in the case of that sector the intersection of Callao and Corrientes avenues starting at 8.
They will also join Nursing staff of CABA grouped in the Association of Graduates in Nursing (ALE)who have been demanding professional recognition as well as better salary and working conditions.
In parallel, from the assembly of residents and attendees they continued today with a campaign to collect signatures (www.change.org/Salary Recomposition) which has already collected almost 80,000 signatures, in which the so-called Assembly of Residents and Attendees of CABA demands “a decent salary for public health” by stating that, “with a salary of $121,000 equivalent to $340 an hour, it is not possible to End of the month”.
Meanwhile, in the framework of a press conference held this morning, from ATE-Capital they affirmed that today’s forceful measure will be “forceful” and stressed that the intention is that the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, I “heard” them.
“We are also going on strike in defense of a professional career in the field of health; we have a positive ruling from Judge (Marina) López Bergara of the Federal Capital, where she orders Rodríguez Larreta that nursing, bioimaging and surgical instrumentation graduates they have to go on to the professional career 6035. We hope that this Head of Government does not put obstacles and complies with what the judge decided”.
Among other union sectors, tomorrow the Hospital Association of the City of Buenos Aires of the Association of State Workers (ATE), Sutegba, Professional Doctors, the Federation of Professionals, the SITRE and ALE unions and the organizations that represent the workers will mobilize residents.
