This Wednesday, nurses of the City of Buenos Aires advance a day of protest, convened by the Association of Graduates in Nursing (ALE), in claim of professional recognition.
health workers In addition, they demand better salary and working conditions from the Buenos Aires Government, for which they will be unemployed today. The nurses They will move from noon to the Obelisk.
There, the nurses of the ALE will give a press conference and will make public their complaints within the framework of their force measurebecause they ensure, among other things, that some wages are below the poverty line.
“The situation is really outrageous. We have basics below the poverty line and we are not included in Law No. 6035 of health professionals, despite demonstrating that we have everything to be recognized” denounced the Association.
And they added: “As if this were not enough, the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and his union partners sign a ‘new career’ in which they lie about salary equality, when in reality they propose quotas until 2025 without even reaching 50% of the salary that corresponds to us”.
In this sense, the Association will propose to all health organizations “a common action of struggle, for salary, professional-labour recognition and working conditions.”
From the union they invited all the nurses in the City to join and support their call, “today we are going to a day of ‘all the fights’ of public health expressed in the streets of CABA. That each partner come with his poster, denouncing his anger over the adjustment policy that we have to face “.
The debate with the City Government
health workers They assure that the Buenos Aires Government does not offer them a salary recomposition according to current needs, for which they rejected the last offer made by the City.
This, since “an 8% salary recomposition is signed, when the loss with respect to inflation is 30%, adding 5% in September and 3% in October to what was already agreed.”
