For the UGTG, the government wants to cut hundreds of jobs for hospital workers, through the vaccination obligation. The union shares its point of view, the day after the HAS announcement, on the planned end of this controversial measure.
“It was time !”, according to the General Union of Workers of Guadeloupe (UGTG), which reacts to the announcement made, Monday, February 20, 2023, by the High Authority for Health. The HAS, whose opinion is normally followed by the government, paved the way for the abandonment of the compulsory vaccination of health and medico-social personnel against Covid-19; this, while reserving its final opinion for the end of next March.
In a press release, the Union of Health Workers (UTS), trade union section of the UGTG, underlines in particular that since 1is last February,all restrictions of the state of health emergency (test, isolate, trace) are lifted” and “renowned French scientists speak out against maintaining the vaccination obligation”.
For this organization, mobilized for almost a year and a half, against the vaccination obligation, it was time to put an end to it.
Finally, the HAS admits that there is nothing that justifies maintaining the vaccination obligation. But this announcement is late, for us, because it has been months, even years since they should have made this decision.
Elière Guiéba, general secretary of the UTS-UGTG
Elière Guiéba, general secretary of the UTS-UGTG
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The union persists and signs: compulsory vaccination has not influenced the chain of contamination in hospitals. He attests that the authorities manipulated the figures to justify their “political wickedness”.
Elière Guiéba, general secretary of the UTS-UGTG
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Only here: the UTS-UGTG demands the reinstatement of all suspended staff, as well as the possibility, for liberal caregivers who refused the injection, to return to work. They are also claiming compensation for the months during which all these professionals were unable to exercise their professions.
On this point, the fight does not yet seem to be won…
The UTS-UGTG denounces the fact that exceptional conventional termination procedures are in progress. For the union, the government wants to cut hundreds of jobs, in the hospital public service, in Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Thus, by decree of February 18, 2023, the French government decided to reactivate and modify the decree of March 11, 2022 which set the methods for calculating the remuneration of civil servants in the event of contractual termination following non-compliance with the vaccination obligation of hospital agents in Guadeloupe and Martinique. It’s about paying more to get rid of recalcitrant agents in the interval from February 20 to June 30, 2023.
Communiqué of the UTS-UGTG – 21/02/2023.
The organization of a public consultation, which delays the final opinion of the HAS, would aim, according to the UTS-UGTG, to delay the reinstatement of the suspended and to reduce the payroll.
Elière Guiéba, general secretary of the UTS-UGTG
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Some unvaccinated caregivers have been suspended for 16 months. Among them, in addition to losing their jobs, some have had to give up their material possessions, or even stop their children’s studies for lack of money. Families have been shattered. It is all these damages that the UTS-UGTG wants to see compensated.
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