Giessen (dpa/lhe) - Employees of the privatized University Hospital Gießen and Marburg (UKGM) want to emphasize their demand for safe working conditions in the event of another warning strike. From the beginning of the early shift next Tuesday (August 2nd) until the end of the late shift on Wednesday (August 3rd), non-medical employees were called upon to stop working, the Verdi union announced on Friday. The aim is a "collective agreement on job security".
The current attempt by the employer to also use employees who have tested positive for the corona virus shows how tense the situation is, said trade unionist Fabian Dzewas-Rehm. "No one in the hospital can be responsible for further staff cuts."
The background to the strike is the impending expiry of important securities for the employees because the UKGM majority owner, Rhön-Klinikum AG, has terminated an agreement with the state of Hesse on the future of the hospital, Verdi said. The employees are worried, because at the end of the year, in addition to taking on the trainees, the comprehensive protection against dismissal and a fundamental ban on outsourcing expired.
In the current situation, in the middle of negotiations with the state about a new future contract and still without concrete results, one sees "no basis" for a collective employment agreement, said the chairman of the UKGM management, Gunther K. Weiß, on Friday according to the announcement .
The recent strike falls into a tense situation: Due to the pandemic, so many employees are currently missing that at the Giessen location of the university clinic, exceptionally, employees who have tested positive for the corona virus are also allowed to work and care for patients. The UKGM announced that patient care was ensured despite the warning strikes.
The employees had already stopped working in mid-July.
