On the eve of a summer that promises to be tense, the unions are asking for salary increases to attract new recruits. To relieve staff, management has already announced last week that 600 beds would be closed this summer.
Le Monde with AFP
They demand hires and salary increases, before a summer which promises to be “very complicated”. The caregivers of the Bordeaux University Hospital, one of the biggest in France, are called to a strike unlimited by their unions from Tuesday, June 28.
Quoting in bulk “The frozen index”, the “random bonuses”, the “lack of recruitment”, the “closure of services and beds”, “rampant outsourcing”, the “illegal reminder Rest and leave “, the FO, CGT and Sud-Santé unions are asking for hiring, while the lack of arms has already pushed management to filter access to emergencies from 5 p.m. since the end of May.
To attract new recruits, the unions are demanding an increase in wages of “minimum 300 euros” for caregivers, administrative and technicians.
“This is the first time that an unlimited strike has been organized in summer. We are at the point of no return,” said Alain Es Sebbar, secretary of the CGT of Pellegrin Hospital, one of the three CHU establishments.
According to Jacques Ollivier, South-Heady delegate for the CHU, this call is intended for all the nursing staff, or some 11,000 people, “nurses and nursing assistants, but also 180 other trades, as laboratory technicians, Medical secretaries, radiologists, physiotherapists, social workers, laundrers “. With more than 14,000 employees, the CHU is the first employer in New Aquitaine.
“At this stage, we count five notice on 8,222 agents planned for the schedule [Tuesday] morning,” said the hospital’s communication service on Monday evening. Even on strike, hospital staff are required to ensure a minimum service.
According to Pascal Gaubert, FO representative at the CHU, “this strike is rather political and symbolic, to put pressure on management this summer, to see if they hold their promise to hire”.
600 beds closed this summer
To relieve staff, management has already announced last week that 600 beds are closed this summer. “We must be able to give vacation, three weeks, between June and September, because we want to protect teams, professionals who love their work, so that they do not flee the hospital,” explained Stéphanie Fazi-Leblanc, Director General CHU assistant. But for Alain Es Sebbar, “this is not new, [the 600 beds] are already closed”.
You absolutely have to hire, “if not, it’s the crash”, insists Pascal Gaubert, de FO. “We are missing 200 vacancies on the CHU, especially among nurses and nursing assistants, and we have an absenteeism of 12 % on average, with today nearly 250 people on stop. This is almost 500 agents less . “
“Everyone is affected, not only caregivers. Just on pharmacy preparers, five leave this summer”, also alerts Alain Es Sebbar.
According to these union elected officials, management promised the arrival of 250 agents who left the school from the end of August to October. “But it is still necessary (…) that we manage to keep them and perpetuate on the posts”, tempers Mr. Gaubert.