The Federation of Public Administration Trade Unions (FESAP) announced on Monday the withdrawal of the strike notice for all workers, with the exception of doctors, after a “productive meeting” with the management of Amadora-Sintra Hospital.
And the trade union announced in a statement that the meeting with the management of the Fernando da Fonseca Hospital, known as Amadora Sintra, allows for the cancellation of the call to stop, which began at midnight on Tuesday.
According to FESAP, the meeting “aimed at signing a negotiation protocol and drawing up a calendar that would allow, on the one hand, all hospital workers to benefit from negotiated salary increases and wage increases for the general administration, and on the other hand, the commitment of this health unit to the signed collective agreements in 2018 for Individual Employment Contract (CIT) workers at EPE Hospitals.”
The Federation of Syndicates said that it was agreed that the negotiation process, which will culminate with the Communications and Information Technology Commission joining the collective contracts of EPE hospitals, begin on the eighth of May and end on the tenth of July, with the signing of the accession agreements. .
The strike of the administrative workers at this hospital had already stopped last Friday after guarantees were obtained that the salary increases and increases in the meal subsidy applied to the civil service in May would be paid backdated to January.
In the statement, FESAP stressed the “good faith in the actions finally revealed by hospital management, and their desire to restore justice to all workers,” which culminated in Monday’s decision to apply to all non-medical workers from May pay raises and raises. and meal subsidy already established for administrative staff.
“Accordingly, Operations Assistants, Technical Assistants, Administrative Staff, Chief Technicians, Diagnostic and Treatment Technicians, and other workers who do not perform medical functions at Amadora Sintra Hospital will witness a response to justice, and therefore enjoy the same rights as colleagues at Hospitals EPE concludes the statement issued by FESAP.
