Part of the workforce at the Nuremberg Clinic has been on a 24-hour warning strike since Thursday.
You are calling for the collective agreement to be aligned.
Nuremberg - Since this morning (May 6th), a large number of employees in reception, transport, the kitchen, materials management, laundry, sewing and cleaning are on a 24-hour strike at the Nuremberg Clinic.
As the trade union ver.di announced in a press release, the strikers gathered today at 8 a.m. at the entrance to the North Hospital and then marched to the town hall to demonstrate.
Warning strike at the Nuremberg clinic: current collective agreement is to be adjusted
With the strike, the union and 850 employees want to call on the management of Klinikum Nürnberg * Service GmbH (KNSG for short) to start collective bargaining.
The current collective agreement is to be aligned with that of the public service.
On Monday, 220 employees drew attention to this requirement during a break.
The participants gathered at the main entrances to the Nuremberg North and South Clinics and expressed their displeasure with chants.
So was "We are great, let's go to the till" to be heard.
Strike at Nuremberg Clinic: "Hospital is teamwork"
As the press release goes on to say, this warning went unheard on the employers' side, according to the chairwoman of the KNSG works council, Karin Reinfelder. “Hospital is teamwork,” she said. “Low wages in the health sector must finally be a thing of the past. We are not second-class employees! ”According to ver.di, patient care is ensured by emergency services, the care of corona patients excluded from the strike.
The Nuremberg Clinic shows no understanding for the 24-hour strike.
In a statement, the KNSG announced that the last offer included a wage increase (depending on length of service) from 13.5 to 17.6 percent within 24 months.
According to this, the employees in the lowest wage group should receive at least 12 euros hourly wage from January 2022.
"This offer is well above what the industry-standard collective agreements in the private sector provide," the statement said.
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