The health care unions threaten actions at academic hospitals. They have given employers an ultimatum in the collective labor agreement negotiations. If their demands for, among other things, a structural wage increase are not met before September 6, employees will work Sunday shifts on weekdays. In hospital care, this is the ultimate means of strike.
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If it comes to that, it will have consequences for the so-called catch-up care. Hospitals still have to catch up en masse with interventions that have been shelved due to the corona crisis. During Sunday services, however, the occupation is reduced in such a way that all planable care is cancelled. Work will then continue as usual in the emergency department, intensive care unit, oncology, cardiac monitoring and maternity and incubator units.
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“We understand that it is very annoying for patients, but this is the only means we still see. Employers can still prevent it,” says a spokeswoman for FNV Zorg & Welzijn, one of the unions behind the ultimatum. The collective labor agreement for academic hospitals applies to almost 80,000 people. They work at Amsterdam UMC, Erasmus MC, LUMC (Leiden), Maastricht UMC+, Radboudumc (Nijmegen), UMCG (Groningen) and UMC Utrecht.
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