With 27 votes in favor, mainly coming from the benches of Let’s go for morepart of the UCR, The Freedom Advances and the liberal spaces, The legislature approved the bill Juan Facundo del Gaiso which proposes creating a new regime that covers exclusively male and female nurses, who are currently considered administrative employees. Some 26 legislators spoke out against (UP, FIT, Public Confidence), while there were 7 key abstentions, gathered around radicalism.
The PRO legislator, Claudio Romero, stated that the government project proposes “improvements” since it “defends the hierarchization of nursing as a whole” by proposing “its own regime like professional doctors and police officers have.” “This statute not only improves working and salary conditions, but also gives the entire nursing community a promotion to have its own statute,” he highlighted..
“I think it is an act of justice for those who carry out this such an essential role in the health system“, he said and affirmed that the “equity” in the profession because today three subgroups coexist in the same system, with different types of initial training: assistants, technicians and graduates. “With a single regulatory framework, we understand that, with the same rights, rules and development, we avoid dissimilar regimes and different treatments for the same task.”
When explaining the majority opinion, Rosemary mentioned the elimination of performance as an evaluation for grade promotionsince it will depend on the capacity of each professional, with only a summary being the one that could cause the worker to lose stability. Furthermore, he stated that will improve the salary proposal and that the competitions for positions will be “open and public.”
Buenos Aires Legislature: the ruling party advanced with its own project, despite the nurses’ claim
Inside the enclosure, the nurses and nurses that They attended the session representing the group of workersresponded to the ruling party’s proposal with a resounding chant from the balconies: “Inclusion, inclusion, inclusion”in reference to voting on entry into law 6,035, as is the case with doctors, dentists, pharmacists, biochemists, and 20 other professional careers.
“This law is the product of consensus,” defended Marina Kienastlegislator of the Liberal Republican Front. “The status of health professionals was recognized, the number of years to be promoted is reduced and the number of years required within each section is reduced,” he summarized.
Maia Daier, deputy of Union for the Homelandadvanced the negative vote of the bloc and defended the minority opinion signed by Peronism, the left and Public Confidence. “I am going to advance the negative vote of my block,” he said. regarding the discussion on the official project. “We believe that it is insufficient” because by not incorporating them into Law 6035 “it separates them from the professional career” and separates them “into first-class and second-class medical equipment.” “We cannot discriminate against them. It has to be a single health system, the health team is unique,” he said.
“It is a historic fight between male and female nurses in the City that has gone through many instances and that have suffered first-hand the repression at the door of the Legislature. From the moment 6035 was formulated, it has a very great element of injustice, which was the non-inclusion of the group,” he recalled. Berenice Iañez of UP, and asked the other legislators to support the minority opinion, which was ultimately not discussed, which had the support of health workers.
In turn, Cele Fierro, of the MST in the Left Front, He stressed that “six years ago this Legislature voted against nursing” and “today we are here because they fought this fight so that once and for all they are recognized for what they are: professionals.” “This project maintains discrimination,” he noted about the ruling party’s ruling.
It is estimated that in the In the local public system there are a total of 11 thousand nurses: six thousand graduates of technical degrees and five thousand graduates of bachelor’s degrees. Law 6,035 has been in force since 2018, passed during the administration of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, which reformed the health system and opened a labor gap: they were excluded from the list of the 24 health professions that 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 working hours. Since then, the unions 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, are 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.
Mercedes Trimarchi, representative of the Socialist Left in the FIT, considered that The changes implemented at that time not only constituted “discrimination but also wage theft” because it meant that they lost half of their income, compared to what they would have received if they were included in the professional career list.
Trimarchi took advantage of mention the mobilization of male and female nurses present outside the Legislative Palacein the context of a strike to demand that a decision be made to include law 6035. “They are waiting for so much injustice to end today,” he said. and clarified that if progress is made in recognition “it will make more workers study the career, improving the system as a whole.”
“I am not going to avoid subterfuge. Lies have been told here today. The ruling party’s project aims to maintain discrimination against male and female nurses and maintain a policy of super-exploitation in salaries and labor. That’s it. “It’s nothing else,” he added. Gabriel Solano, of the Workers Party in it FIT. And he proposed to the Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, to take the two projects to the hospitals and put up an urn: “Guess which one would win. There is not the slightest doubt.”
Then shot heavy mention against the legislators who “negotiated” their vote to accompany the ruling party: “I am not willing to understand the person who told me that if he does not vote for what Jorge Macri wants, he will be fired from office. Get out and get an honest job. Go to work.” And he denounced an agreement in exchange for treatment of another project on online betting: “Are we going to determine that health policy is governed by someone who has a bingo?”
Prior to the vote, the Public Trust legislator, Graciela Ocaña, highlighted that is addressing a “very important” and “sensitive” issue for the City. “Nursing is a critical resource in Argentina and in the world. You cannot talk about health without nurses. This law seeks to prioritize them,” he highlighted the minority opinion and demanded its inclusion in Law 6035.
The opinion of the peronism, he FIT and Public Trust had the support of the nurses, since it planned to correct a complaint from the sector through its incorporation into law 6,035. In its foundations, it stated: “The incorporation of the Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing into the regime of Law 6,035 will mean recognizing the legal, labor and salary hierarchy that corresponds to nursing professionals under conditions of equality with the rest of the professionals in the Nursing System. Health of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires”.
Its inclusion in the The new framework aimed to reduce working hours to avoid strenuous workloads and bring them into line with those of health professionals, in addition to a salary improvement and access to training that involves six hours a week, something that would allow them to improve their professional level and, correspondingly, would contribute to the well-being of the staff. From the opposition benches they assure that the approval of the project could lead to judicialization.
Source: Ambito
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