It is a clear sign of dissatisfaction: With a four-day warning strike, employees at university hospitals want to increase the pressure in the wage dispute for better pay. The clinics fear disadvantages for patients.
Tübingen (dpa / lsw) - Employees at four university hospitals in the south-west will go on a four-day warning strike this Monday. The Verdi union would like to increase the pressure on the employers' side again immediately before the third round of negotiations this Thursday.
Nursing and administrative staff at the university clinics in Tübingen, Heidelberg, Freiburg and Ulm are called upon to stop working up to and including Thursday. Rallies are also planned in each of the cities. According to Verdi, the care at the clinics is ensured by emergency services.
Nevertheless, the clinics are sharply critical. The employers' association of the Baden-Württemberg university hospitals (AGU) described the call for strikes as "completely incomprehensible and unique in the collective bargaining history of the employers' association," as a spokeswoman said. It is massively at the expense of the patients.
With the warning strike, the union wants to achieve an improved offer for the approximately 26,000 employees at the university hospitals. Among other things, Verdi demands 10.5 percent more money for medical-technical assistants as well as nursing and administrative staff, but at least 375 euros more per month; the term should be twelve months.
The last offer from the employers' association provided for a tax-free one-off payment of 4,200 euros and an increase in remuneration by an average of six percent with a term until the end of July 2024.
The negotiations are about employees whose employment is covered by the Uniklinika Baden-Württemberg collective agreement. Doctors or scientific staff fall under other collective agreements.
