It is, according to them, a "questioning of the right to strike" of caregivers.
FO, CGT and SUD denounce this Sunday remarks made by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, because of the vaccination obligation that will apply.
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"The time comes when these people will no longer have the leisure to strike since by definition this vaccination obligation will apply", declared the minister to the press during a visit Thursday to the Aix-en-Provence hospital. .
He referred to a call for a national strike by nursing and medico-social workers launched by SUD and the CGT the day before.
These words can "suggest a questioning of the right to strike, a constitutional right attached to freedom of association and democracy," lamented in a press release the FO Confederation, which "expects the government to (these words) be withdrawn without delay ”.
For Denis Betand, of the CGT Health and Social Action, "these words are in the image of Mr. Véran, contemptuous".
“They accentuate the anger, already immense, which will comfort us in the continuation of the strike.
Mr. Véran is above ground, there is an abysmal gap between his announcement effects and reality.
It proves that he has absolutely no control over the situation and that the health policy carried out is not adapted to reality, ”he added to AFP on Sunday.
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“Health workers have given their lives, they want the choice of getting vaccinated;
they have proven for 18 months that they were facing the pandemic ", he said, indignantly:" in February, the government forced those positive for Covid but asymptomatic to work for lack of staff, in March 2020 we applauded them and now we are going to fire them!
"He deplored the" closure of 69,000 hospital beds since 2003 "(Drees) and" the inability of the system to take care of the real needs of the population long before the Covid crisis ".
For Jean-Marc Devauchelle, of SUD Santé Social, “calling into question the right to strike because a law has been passed, only commits Mr. Véran”.
"It's much easier to be authoritarian in front of the cameras than in front of the personnel with whom there is no discussion," he told AFP on Sunday, saying he was "determined to continue the action and all possible remedies ”against the new law.
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The striking caregivers being assigned, only those who are on rest or on leave can demonstrate.
"Many did it Saturday all over France, especially in Paris, Lyon and Marseille", assured Mr. Devauchelle.
Like the CGT, he warns against a "high rate of absence of caregivers in the weeks to come".
SUD and the CGT called on staff in the health, medico-social and social sectors to a national strike against the vaccination obligation and the health pass, a mobilization planned from the end of the week for the first and from Monday for the second.
