The Verdi union has called on the nursing staff at Berlin’s Charité and Vivantes hospitals to go on a three-day strike. Since Monday morning, employees have been fighting for minimum staffing levels and full public service wages.
A three-day strike by nurses and other employees has been going on at the state-owned hospitals Vivantes and Charité in Berlin since the early hours of the morning. Further talks about an emergency service agreement with the two clinics are planned until noon, said the negotiator of the Verdi union, Meike Jäger, in the morning on the RBB information radio. “Of course we have an interest in concluding this emergency service agreement in such a way that the workers’ right to strike is preserved.” The employers are not prepared to cancel predictable operations if there is a high level of willingness to strike.
Nurses fight for fair working conditions
In the collective bargaining dispute, the union is fighting, among other things, for an equalization of working conditions for all employees, including in the subsidiaries. It is also about a collective agreement that defines a minimum number of staff for wards and areas. It should also contain regulations on the equalization of burdens in the event that these collective bargaining requirements are not complied with. In addition, employees of Vivantes subsidiaries want to receive the full collective wage of the public service.
Both Vivantes and Charité have canceled planned interventions. A rally is planned from 10.30 a.m. in front of the Vivantes headquarters in Reinickendorf. The labor dispute is expected to last until 6:00 a.m. on Thursday.
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