Workers of the Posadas Hospital began a 96-hour strike on Wednesday, demanding an immediate salary increase and rejecting the “absence of responses to the claims” from the unions.
A communiqué from the Buenos Aires public Union Association of Health Professionals (Cicop) and the Self-Convocated Movement ratified the strike and maintained that “There was no salary offer from the Government, so the recomposition continues to be postponed.”
The protest is also supported by the Union Federation of Health Professionals (Fesprosa) which will lead “a national day of struggle.”
The Cicop maintained that the executive director of Posadas, Adrián Tarditi, informed the workers that there are still “no answers to the demand for a salary increase,” while Mirtha Jaime, president of the union at Posadas, confirmed that the organization “is willing to continue negotiations with the Ministry of Health of the Nation”.
The head of Fesprosa, María Boriotti, ratified the entity’s support for the Posadas workers and maintained that the national day of struggle will have as its main claim “the demand to offer a solution to the conflict in the establishment”.
In addition, he indicated that this week there will be measures of force throughout the country and that another similar measure was added to the day of protest on December 6.
“The White Tide is a powerful movement demanding the rights of health workers throughout the country. In this sense, Salud Unidos por Córdoba already mobilized massively last Wednesday and paralyzed the provincial public health system and, in the city of Buenos Aires, the assembly of residents and attendees continues to be mobilized to achieve salary and points,” the union leader explained on Tuesday.
In the province of Buenos Aires, the Provincial Residents Commission will lead a strike this Thursday and Friday, while in Tucumán the Sitas union will march with torches on Thursday and paralyze work on Tuesday, December 6, and in Chubut and Catamarca, there will also be strikes that day before “the insufficient government salary offer”.
Boriotti again demanded a meeting with the Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, to launch the national parity of the activity, and ratified the days of national struggle on December 1 and 6, with strikes and mobilizations.
