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The company committees of the Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Mosiès Broggi and the Parc de Salut de Barcelona expose situations of exploitation by the centers
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They criticize that holidays are suspended without almost any notice and that saturation leads surgical professionals to mix their patients with infected
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Exhausted, annoyed and saturated. After months of daily fighting the impact of pandemic from the front row, the health professionals they can’t take it anymore. In Catalonia, the company committees of the Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Mosiès Broggi and from Barcelona Salvation Park, have denounced this Saturday a series of labor abuses by the management of both centers that has been accentuated after the impact of the covid-19. “The applause has turned into mistreatment,” reads one of the statements.
In them it is stated that, in addition to dragging endemic problems such as cuts and the precariousness of the sector, the health have been overcome by a “brutal increase in workloads and painful planning due to the lack of personnel that have blown up the reconciliation of work with family and social life.”
This past Friday, the management of the Sant Joan Despí Mosiès Broggi Hospital communicated to its workers the suspension of days off for Christmas with less than 24 hours notice, a situation that, they explain, they consider unacceptable and illegal and that “has finished with our patience.” The committee has transferred this Saturday a request for resignation to the board of the center. “We don’t deserve this treatment!” They explain.
“Exercise of irresponsibility”
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This type of abusive practice has also occurred in the Parc de Salut de Barcelona. According to its works council, the center has imposed on workers get vaccinated on the eve of a holiday, “so if adverse effects appear, it is the worker who assumes the consequences.” They also denounce that a calendar management criterion has been imposed without having negotiated with the unions, that the company is opposed to paying 100% of the complementary payments and that in addition the saturation of the services by the coronavirus It is making the hospitalization unit that is dedicated to treating urology or traumatology cases have to treat patients with covid. “It is outrageous and an exercise in irresponsibility,” they explain.
Faced with this situation, the professionals have explained that they have filed a complaint urgent before Work inspection and they assure that, despite the chaotic situation in hospitals for months, they do not rule out convening a strike after the Christmas holidays to claim their labor rights.
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