The Association of Graduates in Nursing (ALE) of CABA and other organizations representing health workers in the AMBA performed this Wednesday the second torch march from Congress to Plaza de Mayo demanding “professional recognition, a 100 thousand peso bonus and the move to permanent floor“, among other demands.
“In the richest city in the country to be a nurse is to have a poverty salary, it is to resort to moonlighting to make ends meet, it is to suffer workplace violence with denial of licenses and rights, it is not to be recognized professionally, labor and salary “said ALE spokespersons.
They also pointed out that the situation is similar in the province of Buenos Aires and in the interior of the country where “they keep the personnel hired for years, extremely precarious and in a situation of misery.”
The new torch march took place within the framework of the National Nursing Day, celebrated on November 21, after expressing himself on numerous occasions over the last two years with camps, stoppages, “noises” and assemblies.
The main demands are the salary and labor recognition of nursing, the inclusion of nursing in law 6035 that would allow recognition in the health professional career and It would improve their working conditions, the transfer to the plant of those hired and a bonus of 100,000 pesos.
“The health system without us is unsustainable, nursing is irreplaceable and we are the majority professional group, but we are relegated to a minimal role in decision-making, that is why we say enough,” they recalled.
They detailed that during the pandemic there were more than 10,000 nurses infected with coronavirus and 228 deaths.
“Nursing was at the forefront supporting public health, vindicating our fundamental social role. The data is overwhelming to show the reality that we had to live as a nursing group during a pandemic that has not ended yet,” they added.
They also denounced that in the City of Buenos Aires there is “a system of oppressive and exploitative power against nursing in public health.”
In this sense, they added that the Association of Municipal Doctors (AMM) it is a “privileged leadership” that “monopolizes competitions and lobbies against nursing”, by not allowing him access to directive or managerial positions in hospitals, and They denounced the leadership of the Single Union of Workers and Employees of the CABA (SUTECBA) for representing “only their own interests and economic privileges” and “to agree with the governments against Nursing desperate for the union dues box.”
During the march signatures were gathered to demand that the Buenos Aires Legislature include Nursing in Law 6035 and meetings were requested with the presidents of all the blocks of the Legislature and with the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
Andrea Ramírez, nurse at the Ramos Mejía Hospital and ALE reference, He expressed: “The pandemic exposed before the whole society the key role that Nursing has in the public and private health system. However, this social support did not have a correlation in public policies to settle historical debts that exist with our group.”
Carolina Cáceres, from the Tornú Hospital and a reference for ALE, He said that “we reached another end of the year with a deplorable situation in terms of employment, wages and professionals. In CABA, the richest city in the country, there are nurses below the poverty basket, with layoffs of contracted personnel, with licenses denied, with an intolerable mistreatment. We are going to continue in the streets. “
From ALE, they reported that the march has the support of the Garrahan Association of Professionals and Technicians, CICOP, AGHIM (Moyano hospital), the Federation of Professionals of CABA, the Internal Commission of the Italian Hospital, the staff of the Posadas Hospital, of the self-convened of La Matanza, of La Plata, of the Celeste Group of SUTECBA (opposition to Genta, in that union) and of other sectors
