This Tuesday day was meant to mobilize and protest for nurses and nursing assistants in the public and private sectors in the Lot. They, each on their side, expressed their anger in Cahors against working and salary conditions that they consider “unworthy” of their profession and “totally inhuman”. Details of their claims.
It all started at the ARS (Regional Health Agency) where a good part of the nursing team from the “Agir pour Mieux Vivre” care center in Cahors and Lalbenque met this Tuesday and was received to claim “a revaluation of basic salaries in the same way as our colleagues in the public service. It is not normal that by having the same diploma we do not have the same basic salary. It would seem fair to us to have a retroactive report from Ségur de la santé for the year 2021, given that we have been on the front line since the start of the health crisis. This has avoided clogging our hospitals, with the consequent risks associated with the difficulty of setting up the health protocol at home. We are the forgotten, the poor of the medical system. “
Obvious skills and an essential role
Home care assistants point out that their role is essential. “We have a full range of skills to enable our patients to stay at home while retaining or regaining partial or total autonomy… We can be confronted with verbal or physical attacks. To complete our skills, some of us have the training of ASG (Gerontological Care Assistant) which allows better management of people with cognitive diseases “they continue, wanting to be” heard and finally recognized. “
Equal pay demanded
Same hope on the side of the public sector or hospital workers also demonstrated this same Tuesday, under the CGT banner and with the support of some candidates for the departmental and regional elections of La France Insoumise including Nathalie Mathubert. She presented herself in the canton of Cahors 3. During the mobilization in front of the Cahors hospital, this nurse from the Camille-Miret Institute was attentive to the demands made by Chantal Dellac, CGT departmental secretary for health and action social.
Weak mobilization of caregivers in Cahors, but strong determination of the demonstrators present around the CGT.
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“We ask that all professionals in our sectors of activity receive the € 183 supplement for index processing. This is still far from being the case. The CGT has denounced for 20 years the breakage of the hospital, like that of associations and establishments working with disabled, elderly and socially difficult people. Of course, these establishments are still there, but with a decrease in the number of beds and places. The needs of the population are no longer absorbed. “
Times are tough for caregivers. An almost exclusively female profession that has been suffering for more than 20 years. Two decades that women have resisted. Be careful, their strengths and their patience have limits.
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