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Warning strikes at university hospitals continue
The unions are calling for an increase in income of five percent, but at least 150 euros over a period of twelve months. Photo: Uwe Anspach / dpa / archive
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In several federal states, collective bargaining employees at university clinics are now going on a warning strike – despite the high number of corona infections. It is said that one is still prepared for emergencies.
Despite the increasing number of corona infections, collective bargaining employees at university clinics in several federal states want to stop their work today.
With the strikes that the Verdi union has called, the employees want to increase the pressure on employers in the collective bargaining dispute over the public service of the federal states. In North Rhine-Westphalia alone, up to 2000 collective bargaining employees want to strike again at the university clinics this Tuesday.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, employees of the six large university hospitals in Aachen, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Essen, Cologne and Münster want to participate – from their early shift. Restrictions due to work stoppages and closed wards can also be expected at the justice hospital in Fröndenberg. Some of the university clinics had already announced that they would postpone operations where this was medically justifiable. It was said that one was still prepared for emergencies. Emergency service agreements apply to protect patients.
In the collective bargaining of the public service it is also about the staff of university hospitals, public prosecutors and local courts. The third round of negotiations is due to take place in Potsdam at the end of November. The unions are calling for an increase in income of five percent, but at least 150 euros over a period of twelve months. Healthcare workers are to receive 300 euros more per month. The collective bargaining association of German states (TdL) had so far rejected the demands as unrealistic.