The unions proclaim the 24-hour national stop: “The contents of the budget law do not guarantee citizens' right to health. The stalemate of the contract renewal, after 8 years of legislative blockage, mortifies professionalism and autonomy"
National 24-hour strike on December 12 by doctors, veterinarians and health managers employed by the NHS. This was declared by the trade union organizations Anaoo Assomed, Cimo, Aaroi-Emac, Fp Cgil Medici e Dirigenti Ssn, Fvm Veterinary and medical federation, Fassid (Aipac-Aupi-Simet-Sinafo-Snr), Cisl Medici, Fesmed, Anpo-Ascoti- Fials Medici and Uil Fpl National coordination of the medical and veterinary contract areas. This is what we read in a joint note.
Reserving the right to subsequently identify other days and to activate further protest initiatives, the organizations declare the strike on December 12 with these reasons. “They denounce the contents of the 2018 budget law being examined by Parliament, as they reiterate policies that are increasingly less oriented towards the obligation to respond to citizens' health needs, according to principles of fairness and safety, and stubbornly exclude public health from the economic recovery underway to the point of making it no longer sustainable except from the pockets of citizens; condemn the absence of signs of attention to doctors, veterinarians and health managers employed by the service, to the value and weight of their work, to the importance of their sacrifices in maintaining the health service".
The unions also "they stigmatize the deadlock in the renewal of the employment contract, after 8 years of legislative blockage, which contributes to the mortification of the role, of autonomy, of professional responsibility and to the worsening of unsustainable working conditions in the face of salary levels unchanged in 2010; deplore the absence of national policies in favor of a uniform enforceability of citizens' health protection rights throughout the country, in compliance with article 32 of the Constitution, in a logic of abandonment healthcare federalism; they point the policies of recent governments as responsible for the failure of the education system which is simultaneously desertifying hospitals and territories and condemning tens of thousands of young people to precariousness and exploitation”.
To explain the reasons for the mobilization, a press conference is scheduled for Thursday 30 November in Rome at 10.30 in the Sala Capranichetta in Piazza Montecitorio.
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