The Association of Professionals and Technicians of the Garrahan Hospital (APyT) carried out this Tuesday a stoppage of activities in demand of a salary floor of 217,000 pesos that “will allow to cover the cost of the basic basket”, according to union sources.
The hospital workers announced that despite the force measure, which began at 6 and will last until 9, they will maintain “all modes of emergency care on call and inpatients.”
Within the framework of the protest, an act will be carried out that will consist of a symbolic hug to the facilities of this health care center located in Combate de Los Pozos 1881.
Today’s is seventh strike carried out by the APyT in the context of a fight plan for which “an advance of 2024 in installments (60% from June to October) plus a non-remunerative 30% until January” was obtained.
Norma Lezana, general secretary of the APyT, explained in a statement that “the Garrahan’s plan of struggle gained enormous strength from the unity in diversity built from unions like ours, and self-convened from Garrahan.”
“The authorities had to give us part of the reason: we achieved an increase that questioned the parity signed by UPCN and ATE. But it is not enough: we are going for more,” Lezama said.
The Garrahan Hospital budget is financed with 80% of Nation funds and 20% of the City; It has a health team of 6,000 workers, with highly complex professionals who perform 600,000 consultations per year, 10,000 surgeries and more than 100 transplants.
Meanwhile, the workers of the Rivadavia Hospital, grouped in ATE-CTA-A, will hold a rally and protest “for an initial salary of 200,000 pesos” for employees in the nursing, radiological, administrative and general service areas.
This was reported to Télam by union spokesmen, who indicated that this protest will take place from 10:30 a.m., at the corner of Las Heras and Tagle avenues, in Barrio Norte, under the slogans “Enough of the adjustment, an initial salary of 200,000 pesos, the granting of a year-end bonus and that the dismantling of the health system” of the CABA is finished.