The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Nurses strike at Berlin hospitals

2021-08-23T08:04:44.307Z


Nurses and other employees have stopped work at Berlin's state-owned hospitals. Among other things, they are demanding more staff and full wages.


Enlarge image

Strike by nurses at the Charité in 2015

Photo: Jörg Carstensen / dpa

A three-day strike by nurses and other employees has been going on at the state-owned hospitals Vivantes and Charité in Berlin since Monday morning.

The labor dispute should last until 6 a.m. on Thursday.

Further talks about an emergency service agreement with the two clinics are planned until noon, said the negotiator of the Ver.di union, Meike Jäger, on the RBB-Inforadio.

"Of course we have an interest in concluding this emergency service agreement in such a way that the workers' right to strike is preserved."

In the collective bargaining dispute, the union is fighting, among other things, for an equalization of working conditions for all employees, including in the subsidiaries.

It is also about a collective agreement that defines a minimum number of staff for wards and areas.

The employees are also calling for regulations on the equalization of burdens in the event that the collective agreement requirements are not adhered to.

In addition, employees of Vivantes subsidiaries want to receive the full collective wage of the public service.

dab / dpa

Source: spiegel

All business articles on 2021-08-23

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.