The National Federation of Physicians (FNAM) announced a new strike on July 5th and 6th, alleging that the government had not yet submitted a salary increase proposal with less than a month before negotiations ended. Regarding the review of doctors’ payrolls, he added that the National Dental Federation “remains without any concrete proposal on the part of the government”, which means it is “forced to launch a strike notice” for July 5 and 6. Lusa Agency President of the Union, Joanna Bordalo e SA.
The decision to go ahead with this strike, the second after a two-day pause at the beginning of March, came after Friday’s meeting with the Ministry of Health, within the scope of negotiations that are expected to end at the end of March. This month. According to the union leader, if by June 30, the day when the negotiation protocol ends, the government “gave in and put forward concrete proposals serving doctors and the National Health Service (SNS)”, then the strike could be averted.
“We are left with no alternatives, and we have pushed again towards this measure, but until June 30 we will see what the Ministry of Health offers us to avoid a strike and, above all, to solve the problem of doctors in the SNS,” said Joanna Bordalo e SA. With 28 days before negotiations end, the union “has less and less hope” of reaching agreement between the parties regarding the various issues being negotiated, including a review of salary scales for SNS doctors, he acknowledged. Head of FNAM.
Joanna Bordalo e Sa also emphasized that although this new strike was announced, “the National Federation of Gynecologists and Children remains fully prepared” to continue negotiations with the government, but “the Ministry of Health still needs to present its proposals in concrete terms”. “We want to see the documents and this is not done,” the union leader lamented, who “without updating the salary scales to fair values for doctors” it will not be possible to reach an understanding with the government.
For several months, the doctors’ unions and the Ministry of Health have been in negotiations, but no agreement has yet been reached. As this time has elapsed, the Federation of Independent Doctors (SIM) and the Federation of National Doctors (FNAM) have criticized the lack of concrete proposals from the government on the issues under discussion, stressing that they are not condescending to reviewing salary scales in the process.
Negotiations have already officially begun with the team of Minister Manuel Pizarro, but the matters to be negotiated are still agreed with the former minister, Marta Temedo, who has agreed to include the salary network of SNS doctors in the negotiation protocol. Accordingly, we find on the table the special standards for the organization and discipline of work, the evaluation of doctors in the emergency services, the full dedication envisaged in the new platform of the social networking system and the revision of the payroll.
Doctors comment on SNS
The independent doctors’ union (SIM) on Friday also made a “very strong appeal” to the government to create conditions for doctors to settle into the NHS and thus avoid forms of struggle that professionals do not want.
About 300 days after we signed the negotiation protocol and about 29 days before the end of the term, in which the government committed itself to a set of negotiations with the unions, which is the issue of full dedication and the issue of the salary grid, Mr. Minister, once again, he did not make any concrete proposal regarding these matters. ”Said the Secretary General of SIM Lusa, at the end of another meeting at the Ministry of Health.
Jorge Roque da Cunha said that the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, presented “a set of general ideas, but without documents, without the ability to negotiate details”, prompting SIM to express his “extreme concern at the fact that this could happen”.
Although the USF’s Model B circular was considered positive, for the reform of doctors in the NHS, the union leader lamented the “insensitivity” and “lack of capacity” to propose concrete measures, namely the network salary, and said they had expressed to the minister their ” very seriously concerned” about this situation.
In this sense, he called for the government to be able to overcome this issue in the remaining three meetings to avoid protests. “For our part, we are fully ready and willing not to be forced into taking measures that could in any way further impair the Portuguese’s access to health care, that is, through strikes, stoppages or other forms of protest, because it is something we obviously do not want, We therefore appeal to the government not to push us into this kind of struggle that we do not want, as we have shown in the last 300 days.”
The Independent Doctors Syndicate reaffirms that it is a union with great negotiating power, and it fulfills what it signs, and does not create any disturbance during the negotiation process of strikes, excitement or gatherings, whatever it may be, because in addition to defending doctors, we also defend our users, and in this sense We are making a very strong appeal to the Government to create conditions for doctors to settle into the NHS,” he insisted.
It is no coincidence that 1.6 million Portuguese are without a family doctor, said Roque da Cunha, that there are “endless waiting lists”, and that emergency services are still below limits, lamenting that the way for the government to overcome the problem has been the focus of resources.
According to the trade union leader, the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, has been in all meetings with SIM and “has the capacity for dialogue”, but commented “I question his ability to work with the government, with Mr. -Minister of Finance, with the Minister of Finance, to make the Portuguese people He understands the suffering, especially those who have more difficulties in accessing health care, which is counseling, family doctors, surgeries and sickening insensitivity.”
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