Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) - The Verdi union and the Frankfurt University Hospital are continuing to negotiate this Monday about the relief of around 4,000 non-medical employees. After a two-day warning strike last week, talks are entering a third round.
Among other things, Verdi calls for a limit on how many patients a nurse on the ward has to take care of per shift. It is also about better training conditions and compensation for work in overwork situations.
In its offer to the union last week, the clinic saw "the essential demands of the employee side" fulfilled. It is still unclear when measures to relieve the burden can be implemented. Verdi negotiator Jens Ahäuser, on the other hand, sees the two negotiating partners as still "far apart" in terms of content. But he "doesn't have the impression that the employer side doesn't want to find a solution". There is a reasonable atmosphere for negotiations.
As both negotiating partners confirmed, the university hospital approached the union at the beginning of the year to negotiate relief for the employees.
The Frankfurt University Hospital is one of only two university hospitals in Hesse. The Gießen-Marburg University Hospital was privatized and belongs to Rhön-Klinikum AG.
