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The Government tries to unblock the Health salary conflict in the midst of a fight plan with partial strikes - Infobae
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El Gobierno intenta destrabar el conflicto salarial de Sanidad en medio de un plan de lucha con paros parciales
El secretario de Trabajo, Julio Cordero, convocó para esta mañana a empresarios y sindicalistas del sector. El sindicato que lidera Héctor Daer comenzó con paros de 2 horas por turno, hoy serán de 3 horas y el viernes, de 4 horas. Qué dicen los prestadores de salud
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May 23, 2024
The Secretary of Labor, Julio Cordero, summoned businessmen and union members from the sector this morning. The union led by Héctor Daer began with strikes of 2 hours per shift, today they will be 3 hours and on Friday, 4 hours. What health providers say
By Ricardo Carpena
The Federation of Health Workers (FATSA) began the fight plan and today will hold a key negotiation for their salary claim
The Government will try this Thursday to unblock the salary conflict between the Federation of Associations of Argentine Health Workers (FATSA) and health sector providers, in a key meeting that will be held at the Ministry of Labor for 24 hours and Until Friday, strikes of two, three and four hours per shift of the union led by Héctor Daer are carried out.
The measure of force affects clinics, sanatoriums, private hospitals, nursing homes and emergency services, where only minimum guards are maintained during progressive strikes. “Our salaries have dramatically lost their purchasing power, while employers in the health sector systematically refuse to grant the increases that we have been demanding for months,” FATSA stated, after complaining that “salaries have been frozen since March.”
In any case, the Secretary of Labor, Julio Cordero, called on businessmen and union members to a meeting that will take place this Thursday, at 11, to try to resolve the conflict. In the chambers of the sector they admitted that salaries could not be rearranged and assured that this Friday they would be in a position to make a proposal for an increase: "We cannot compensate for inflation, but we are going to offer a figure so that salaries do not deteriorate even further." .
Héctor Daer, leader of the Federation of Health Workers (FATSA) and co-head of the CGT
FATSA's fight plan includes a progressive protest scheme: this Wednesday there were strikes of two hours per shift; Today it will be three hours per shift and on Friday, four hours per shift. In each clinic, hospital and sanatorium there are different levels of adherence to the measures, but non-urgent shifts were rescheduled and only minimum guards were maintained.
Daer maintained that “the irresponsible and shameful attitude of health employers is unacceptable” and warned that “we continue with our national fight plan, demanding a fair salary adjustment for all workers in the healthcare sector.” “We will not stop,” she added on her X account. “The employers are solely responsible for the consequences of care until our claim is attended to.”
For the business sector, the president of the Chamber of Ambulatory Diagnostic and Treatment Entities (CEDIM), Marcelo Kaufman, told Infobae that “the union is not to blame” for the salary situation, although he highlighted that in 2023 workers received increases that covered “practically what inflation marked, minus some improvement points that we granted between February and March.” “Our problem is due to the lack of resources for financing the health sector. It doesn't just have to do with costs, but it has to do with income,” he noted.
Hospitals, clinics and sanatoriums will operate with rescheduled shifts and minimum guards due to the FATSA strikes (Reuters Photo)
He recalled that “this labyrinth is a chronicle of an announced death that has been coming for a long time, but under great pressure from the previous government since the pandemic: we had a number of subsidies to sustain work, without dismissal of personnel and without salary reduction.” “At that time there was the Emergency Assistance Program for Work and Production (ATP),” he recalled, “but they did not increase our tariffs in the face of inflation that was 36-odd percent in 2020. But in 2023, with a inflation of 211 points, we receive, in the best of cases, 140 in tariffs and we pay salaries equivalent to 170%, in addition to paying for inputs, devaluation in between, first of 20% and then the increase in the Country Tax from 7 to 17.5% for medical supplies. “This is how we became defunded and lost working capital.”
Kaufman pointed out that "when this government takes office and devalues, all medical supplies and equipment go through the roof, while the Argentine business community stocked merchandise thinking that the dollar could be at 2000 and costs also went through the roof."
The head of the CEDIM stressed that “we are not against the union because we have always had dialogue and we have been accommodating, and we know that salaries are not enough for anyone, but we are doing what we can: it is not a distributive bid, it is a bid of possibilities.”
Health providers warned that the sector is in crisis and there may be closure of clinics and sanatoriums (Reuters Photo)
For his part, Alejandro Rodi, manager of the Argentine Chamber of Social Security (CAPRESS), explained: “We are years behind, an increase in public services that reaches 400%, an increase in inputs that in some cases reaches 300% so far this year and benefit adjustments do not exceed 40%. As social security providers, we have 30 clinics throughout the country on the brink of closure if we do not achieve a response from the provincial and union social works.”
“The health system has been collapsing for years ,” he warned. Doctors cannot charge what they charge and neither can clinics. We understand and support the claim, but if financiers like PAMI and IOMA, for example, do not adjust, the system will go into total bankruptcy.”
