In the midst of the day of mobilizations that teachers and judicial authorities are carrying out this Thursday, the nurses of the City of Buenos Aires will also carry out a protest in the microcentro of Buenos Aires.
health workers They demand professional recognition and salary improvements from the Buenos Aires government. The protest of the nurses It is given in the framework of the celebration of Nursing Day.
The nurses members of the Association of Nursing Graduates (ALE) will mobilize from 2:00 p.m. to the Obelisk. The mobilization will generate complications in mobility; In addition, the Metrobús will be partially cut.
From the Obelisk, health workers will move along 9 de Julio Avenue until they reach Plaza de Mayo, where, at the end of the afternoon, the measure of force in the sector will end.
From the Association they expressed: “The Justice of CABA summoned the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and the district Health Minister, Fernán Quirós, to apply the Professional Career regime to CABA nursing”
For her part, Carolina Cáceres, a nurse at the Tornú Hospital and press secretary for the Federation of Professionals for ALE, pointed out that health workers “continue on the streets” and warned that “nursing is going to fight until the end.”
While, Workers of the Garrahan pediatric hospital carried out a strike this Thursday in rejection of “budget cuts” in the health establishment.
Government and resident doctors reached a salary agreement
After nine weeks of protests and mobilizations, the Buenos Aires government accepted that the salary floor for resident doctors reach $200,000, as the sector has been demanding for weeks. In this way, the total wage increase in the sector for this year is 99%.
From the Association of Municipal Doctors (AMM) they celebrated the agreement and pointed out: “It is highlighted that this agreement ensures that all professionals receive a parity adjustment, this year, above inflation, recovering the purchasing power of salary”.
