Doctors, veterinarians and managers: strike on December 12th

Fedaisf editorial staff

November 29, 2017

I sindacati proclamano lo stop nazionale di 24 ore: “I contenuti della legge di bilancio non garantiscono il diritto alla salute dei cittadini. Lo stallo del rinnovo contrattuale, dopo 8 anni di blocco legislativo, mortifica professionalità e autonomia”

rassegna.it – 28 novembre 2017

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, secondo principi di equità e sicurezza, ed escludono con pervicacia la sanità pubblica dalla ripresa economica in atto fino a renderla non più sostenibile se non dalle tasche dei cittadini; condannano la assenza di segnali di attenzione ai medici, ai veterinari ed ai dirigenti sanitari dipendenti del servizio, al valore ed al peso del loro lavoro, alla importanza dei loro sacrifici nella tenuta del servizio sanitario”.

The unions also “stigmatizzano lo stallo del rinnovo del contratto di lavoro, dopo 8 anni di blocco legislativo, 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.