On June 4, the Healthcare Union’s strike for shorter working hours started. The strike covers the college hospitals in 5 areas in addition to Södersjukhuset and Danderyd Hospital in Stockholm.
– We’re with the inhabitants all through life – from BB to the tip of life. Our strike is in regards to the sufferers. It is about saving Swedish public healthcare and on the identical time getting the chance to have the ability to work a full skilled life, says Sineva Ribeiro, president of the Swedish Healthcare Affiliation.
The strike issues members and unorganized within the 5 areas of Stockholm, Västra Götaland, Skåne, Östergötland and Västerbotten. It contains workplaces at Skåne College Hospital, Sahlgrenska College Hospital, Karolinska College Hospital, Linköping College Hospital, Norrland College Hospital. As well as, Danderyd Hospital and Södersjukhuset are lined in Sobona’s contract space.
The background to the battle between Vårdförbundet and SKR/Sobona is that the negotiations on a brand new major settlement have stalled. The healthcare union’s most necessary requirement is a long-term resolution with shorter working hours, as a result of lots of the members change into sick or go part-time to manage. In a primary step, the Vårdförbundet desires to see 75 minutes of lowered working time per week, 1 / 4 of a day, or round 8 days in a yr. This may be discovered within the collective settlement signed by the Vårdförbundet within the personal sector and with the municipal union.
– We didn’t wish to find yourself right here in any respect, however have hoped for nearly six months that Sweden’s municipalities and areas would meet us in our calls for. However SKR doesn’t wish to scale back our working hours by even 1 / 4 of a day. They’d reasonably see us strike. I am upset about that, however we stand agency. We’d like shorter working hours and we’ve the general public’s help for that, says Sineva Ribeiro.
7 out of 10 of the Swedish public help shorter working hours for the Swedish Well being Confederation’s skilled teams, reveals a current Novus survey. There’s additionally broad help for the Vårdförbundet’s battle measures.
Final week, native negotiations on the content material and scope of the strike had been concluded. The healthcare affiliation then took accountability and got here to an settlement with the areas.
-Vårdförbundet’s members have identification professions. Which means we all the time take accountability for the affected person in entrance of us. Nevertheless, we’re not liable for the well-known deficiencies in healthcare, nor for staffing healthcare to fulfill the general public’s want for care. It’s the hospital administration and the politicians who’ve that accountability, says Sineva Ribeiro.
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Info in regards to the Vårdförbundet’s contract motion and battle
- In December 2023, the primary settlement HÖK22 was terminated. Contract negotiations started in January. The well being care union’s most necessary calls for are to avoid wasting care by way of a gradual shortening of working hours, an excellent wage development and sustainable schedules. The background is that many members work part-time as a result of they cannot take it, and that younger individuals expertise the workload the worst. 4 out of ten younger individuals don’t assume it’s seemingly that they’ll keep in care.
- The negotiations had been locked on the finish of March, and the On March 26, the Well being Care Affiliation requested {that a} mediator ought to be appointed.
- Mediation occurred between 1 and 11 April. The mediators introduced a proposal that the Vårdförbundet’s federal board rejected on April 11.
- On April 11, the Healthcare Affiliation introduced a blockade of time beyond regulation, time beyond regulation and new hires for round 63,000 members in all areas in addition to Capio Sankt Göran Hospital, AISAB, Danderyd Hospital and Södersjukhuset.
- On April 19, the Mediation Institute appointed a mediator for Sobona’s contract space.
- On April 24, SKR and Sobona made a suggestion which the Well being Confederation rejected, the identical day the Well being Confederation made a counter-bid which SKR and Sobona rejected.
- On April 25, the blockade got here into impact.
- On Might 6, the Well being Care Affiliation introduced a blockade of time beyond regulation, time beyond regulation and new employment for round 5,000 members in 29 municipalities. The blockade got here into power on 20 Might.
- On Might 21, the Vårdförbundet introduced a strike for round 2,000 members in 5 areas and at Södersjukhuset and Danderyd Hospital. On June 4, the strike comes into impact.
- On Might 28, the Vårdförbundet introduced a strike for round 1,900 further members (see extra information above). On June 11, that strike will come into impact.
- Till June 3, the Swedish Medical Affiliation has obtained greater than 7,500 reviews about protecting work and the variety of disputes about protecting work is as much as virtually 1,400. The disputes are about employers not utilizing protecting work accurately and/or not negotiating in regards to the protecting work.
- On June 4, the Vårdförbundet’s strike got here into impact. On the identical day, the blockade of recent hires is lifted in all areas in addition to at Danderyd Hospital and Södersjukhuset.