2024-01-17 21:23:13
The conflict between the unions that represent the employees of the provincial State and the administration of Martín Llaryora has worsened in recent hours, and public hospitals are the main echo chamber. This Wednesday, the plenary session of unions with representation in the State decided to join the national strike next Wednesday the 24th, in a concurrent complaint once morest Javier Milei and the governor of Cordoba.
On Tuesday, Llaryora decided to accelerate the conflict: on the one hand, the Ministry of Labor informed the unions that represent state employees that the new provincial government was unaware of the parity, so it will not settle the salaries of workers with an increase in line with inflation. December (retroactive) and January.
In parallel, the president announced that he will decentralize the management of hospitals to their directors, which put the Union of Health Workers on a war footing.
In Huinca Renancó, Llaryora referred to the need to strengthen public health: “In this economic crisis, many are not going to have social work, they are not going to be able to pay prepaid, they are going to have to go to a public hospital. So, we have to prepare to be more efficient and to invest more.”
In this sense, he highlighted the importance of the Hospital Strengthening Program announced on Tuesday, which has a fund of more than 7 billion pesos, encouraging decentralization and allowing the directors of the 44 provincial public hospitals to quickly resolve and efficiently the daily difficulties of its operation.
Cross
Given this, the Union of Health Workers (UTS) came to the crossroads.
”Apparently the governor does not want to manage the health system and prefers to transfer the responsibilities that this task entails. He proposes returning to a dismantling that has nothing new and that has already failed. Even in 2013, more than 10 years ago, he caused a harsh conflict in health due to the lack of supplies and the cases of corruption that the decentralization of purchases had brought with it,” the union said.
The UTS also accused the governor of “insisting with threats and lies by pointing out that public health personnel would be privileged in relation to salaries compared to the private sector and insisting on the discourse of efficiency and productivity.”
The union insisted that there is an “attempt to impose the logic of private business on public health.” It is a direct shot once morest Ricardo Pieckenstainer, new Minister of Health and former director of the Private Hospital. They accuse him, directly, of “trying to adjust public health and continue with the privatization of services and negotiations with the corporate private health sector.”
“It is a smear campaign once morest health personnel. The numbers (given by Llaryora) are liars: no hospital can function with 60 percent absenteeism, it is a blatant lie,” said Gastón Vacchiani, from the UTS.
Pablo Igarzábal, a representative of the Córdoba Hospital Medical Association, also questioned Llaryora: “After the pandemic they did not learn anything, we said that health care was going to suffer, that surgeries were going to be delayed, we raised it three years ago. years and the arguments are that the doctors are to blame.”
Suspended joint venture
Although on Tuesday government officials assured that the call to state unions was imminent, as of Wednesday followingnoon that had not happened. The Province was analyzing a series of measures that would imply a salary cut, with increases below inflation or with the reduction of one hour of work.
In the official calculation, the reduction in the working day by one hour represents 17 percent of the salary.
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