In full resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic, a new day of strike and demonstrations was organized Thursday in several cities in France, at the call of unions and hospital collectives.
Three months after their last mobilization on July 14, the CGT and its allies once again called on the staff of hospitals and nursing homes to express their anger and their dismay, faced with a lack of staff, resources and beds in their homes. establishments.
In Paris, several hundred people gathered at the beginning of the afternoon behind the Invalides, from where they set off in procession towards the neighboring Ministry of Health.
Coincidentally, these actions took place the day after Emmanuel Macron's announcement of a curfew in the Paris region and in eight other metropolises as of Saturday.
But also at the time when Jean Castex announced that the general increase in salaries for hospital staff (excluding doctors) planned for March will finally be paid "before the end of the year" and that caregivers renouncing their All Saints leave will receive an “indemnity” of 110 to 200 euros gross per day.
A decision taken "in view of the situation", while nearly a third of the resuscitation beds in the country are occupied by patients with Covid-19.
