The chairman of the healthcare affiliation, Sineva Riberiro, is upset.
– That is sufficient now. We have now taken our duty. Now the employer has to take their half, after which they’ve to scale back the weekly working hours in order that our members can deal with a full working life.
The strike discover is thus an escalation of the continuing battle that started nearly a month in the past. The union then started an extra time and new employment blockade involving 63,000 members.
The dispute is concerning the working hours, the place the Vårdförbundet calls for a progressively shortened working time, which the opposite celebration, SKR, believes is inconceivable to implement as a result of scarcity of personnel within the healthcare sector.
However that is not an argument that bites Sineva Ribeiro.
– These are ridiculous calculations. It is a scheduling problem that is straightforward to resolve. Decreased working hours would additionally make it simpler to recruit new nurses.
Escalating the battle
In keeping with Sineva Riberiero, the opposite celebration claims that it has no different mandate than to give you the identical contract proposal that the Vårdförbundet got here up with from the start.
The events have a scheduled negotiation in the present day, Tuesday.
– We have now met a number of occasions, however they solely include the identical handle that now we have already stated no to twice. So I am not going to simply accept it. It is going to be a no on the sitting desk and I’ve your complete federal board with me in that, says Sineva Ribeiro.
The work has utilized to SKR, which declines to touch upon the discover, however refers to a press launch.
There it’s written that mediators at the moment are requested to step in and assist.
– If we’re to have the ability to attain an settlement and put an finish to the Well being Care Union’s strike motion, we should negotiate. Due to this fact, it’s time to name in mediators in order that we will resolve the battle, says Ulf Olsson, chairman of the negotiating delegation of Sweden’s Municipalities and Areas (SKR).
The employers’ group dismisses the demand for shorter working hours as a result of tough recruitment state of affairs. SKR believes that it will reasonably enhance the burden on those that work in healthcare.
– The directives from the elected officers in municipalities and areas are clear – in depth reductions in working hours aren’t an choice. When there aren’t sufficient staff to recruit, a discount in working hours dangers going utterly fallacious, says Sten Nordin, vice chairman of SKR’s Negotiation Delegation, within the press launch.
The strike impacts 2,000 staff on the main hospitals in Stockholm, Västra Götaland, Skåne, Östergötland and Västerbotten.
On the identical time, the union pronounces that it’s partially easing the blockade of latest hires to make it simpler for the nursing college students who graduate in June.
The strike, which begins on June 4, until the events agree earlier than then, contains biomedical analysts, radiology nurses and nurses.