The Buenos Aires Legislature will debate this Thursday at the venue one of the most important projects of the year for the City: Nursing law. With two conflicting opinions, the ruling party will try to approve a project that proposes incorporating health workers into a special regimewhile the opposition is charging forward with its own text that is in line with the workers’ demand. The nurses They go on strike for 24 hours to stop the initiative of the PRO and allies.
It is estimated that in the public system locally there are a total of 11 thousand nurses: six thousand graduates of technicalities and five thousand graduates degrees. Since 2018 the law 6,035, sanctioned during the management of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, that reformed the health system and opened a labor gap: they were excluded from the list of the 24 health professions who make up doctors, biochemists, pharmacists, dentists, among others and began to consider them as administrative employees.
The change hit workers both in the salary calculation as in the hours of work. Since then, the union They started a fight that has been going on for six years so that they receive benefits similar to those received by a doctor and, therefore, be included in the professional career. The Justice Department supported the presentations in different instances, but the Buenos Aires government appealed in each of the instances.
Now, the discussion will move to the heart of the Buenos Aires Legislative Palace, where they will be discussed two opinions: on the one hand, the majority, presented by the Civic Coalition with the support of PRO, part of the UCR, the libertarians and liberals; on the other hand, the one signed by Union for the Homelandthe left, Public Trust and a sector of radicalism, under the wing of the owner of the space, Manuela Thourthe.
Weeks ago, during the joint meeting of three commissions to discuss the projects, an unusual event occurred. After a heated discussion, in the presence of dozens of nurses who were demanding a transfer to a professional career, The result of both opinions was 18 to 18which generated surprise and tension. Hours later the error was corrected: those legislators who make up more than one commission had not finished being counted: The final score was 23 to 20.
Two opinions in conflict to define the Nursing law
The opinion of the peronism, he FIT and Public Trust It has the support of nurses, since it foresees its incorporation into Law 6,035. In its foundations, it states: “The incorporation of the Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing into the Law 6,035 will mean recognize the legal, labor and salary hierarchy that corresponds to nursing professionals under conditions of equality with the rest of the professionals of the Health System of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires”.
Its inclusion in the new framework would allow them reduce the working day to avoid strenuous loads and equate them with those of health professionals, in addition to improved salaries and access to training which means six hours a week, something that would allow them improve professional level and, correspondingly, would contribute to staff well-being.
On the other hand, the project Gaiso proposes to create a new employment regime that exclusively covers male and female nurses, incorporating graduates to the professional career through public contest. As for what wage, It plans to raise workers’ income to 90% of what doctors receive, but within three years. The hourly load It will continue to be 35 hours per week.
“The vote is going to be very finite”they overtook Scope from the block PRO, while in the DC look with greater confidence and optimism at the future of the project presented by Facundo del Gaisohead of the block: “The majority opinion comes out,” they assured.
The libertarian bloc that leads Pilar Ramirez will also approve the majority opinion. “They accepted almost all the proposed modifications so we are going to accompany them. The most important thing for us is that they are recognized as professionals,” they told this medium.
Radicalism will have the key that will settle the dispute. Thourte gave a first wink when signing the opposition’s opinion, in the same way that Lucio Lapeña, Gustavo Mola and Guillermo Suarez. In the block there is freedom of action, so The other four members will be key to defining which way the support leans.
Even though U.P. It is the bench with the largest number of legislators (18), in short, the opposition would not be able to overcome the ruling party faction without the support of the UCR. The current situation is a virtual tie of around 31 votes. If it comes to fruition, the president of the Legislature should resolve the issue, Clara Muzzio.
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Nurses go on strike to demand a change in the law
Andrea Ramirez, holder of the Association of Nursing Graduates (ALE), He stated that this Thursday the legislators will have in their hands the possibility of starring in a “historic act of justice” voting in favor of the opposition project. With the support of UP, the FIT, the Graciela Ocaña sector and the UCR would reach the majority, but radicalism will vote divided and its outcome is unknown.
From ALE they reminded the president of the National UCR, Martin Lousteau, his electoral commitment to the sector, who last year stated: “We have to give them the recognition they deserve. They are health professionals and that is how they will be”. Now, the association asked him to fulfill his promise: “Tomorrow, your deputies will define whether or not Nursing passes Law 6,035: do not commit the aberration of voting against the first line.”
During this Thursday, the nurses will carry out a strike for 24 hours to demand the approval of the opposition office. “We stopped all the hospitals and CeSAC and mobilized at the door of the Buenos Aires Legislature. Let no one be missing, now is our time“, indicated in a statement the Association of Graduates in Nursing.
The legislator of Workers Party on the Left Front, Gabriel Solano, He highlighted the importance of the approval of the initiative so that nursing is recognized as a professional. “This project that we agreed upon among several blocks implies ending discrimination and proposes an improvement in salary, working conditions, and working hours,” he said.
“On the other hand, a project from the government of Jorge Macri that maintains discrimination against these measures and makes viable the interests of health corporations, which have as one of their main sources of profit the super exploitation of workers nursing. The ruling party’s project proposes keeping the nurses subjected to multiple employment, exhausting hours and very low salaries”, he questioned.
Source: Ambito
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