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Date Published: 23/03/2023

ARCHIVED - Murcia hospital workers vote to strike on March 30

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All staff in private hospitals in the Region of Murcia will down tools at the end of the month

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Murcia hospital workers vote to strike on March 30

Employees in private hospitals across the Region of Murcia have voted in favour of striking on Thursday March 30 after negotiations between the CCOO and UGT unions and the Ministry of Health ground to a halt earlier this month.

After numerous meetings, the unions have resorted to industrial action as they fail to accept "the rights cuts proposed by the employer, among which are the elimination of seniority and Temporary Disability and a salary increase that does not compensate for the increase that the CPI has had in the last 12 years."

The groups have been very slow to resort to these measures given the obvious impact a strike will have on private clinics and hospitals throughout the Region, but they believe “the current precariousness” of staff warrants stronger action.

However, all is not yet set in stone as a mediation has been organised for March 28 with the employers’ association, Unión Murciana de Hospitales, in the hopes that a mutual agreement can be reached in relation to pay and working conditions.

If this too fails, then staff will strike on the 30th, and protests will take place between 10am and 11am at Hospital Quirón and from 12 to 13.30 in front of the San Esteban Palace.

The Murcian Union of Hospitals has been very clear that it does not support this industrial action while the interested parties are still "in full negotiations of the collective agreement, although we respect it as a right they have."

Regarding the negotiation, the union insists that "we are looking for proposals that are beneficial for workers in the private health sector, but that are also acceptable to all companies in the sector, both large and smaller clinics."

See also: Busy Murcia health centres can now open for afternoon consultations

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