Dozens of workers from the Vila Franca de Xira Hospital, who are on a 24-hour strike, gathered this Wednesday at the entrance to that health unit to demand adherence to collective bargaining and a 35-hour workweek.
“This concentration, and this strike that is taking place today [quarta-feira] at the Vila Franca de Xira Hospital, it is because the workers are demanding adherence to a collective bargaining agreement, which will allow them to work 35 hours a day,” Ana Amaral, from the Acting Workers’ Union, told the Lusa agency. . and Social Public Affairs of the South and Regions.
Failure to comply with this agreement means that the workers of the Vila Franca de Xira Hospital continue to work 40 hours a week, which does not have the same rights as public service workers, generating great discrimination against the workers of the other hospitals in the EPE”, added Ana Amaral, highlighting that it is a universe of hundreds of workers from the administrative sector, medical assistants and senior diagnostic and therapeutic technicians, among others.
The unionist told the Lusa agency that she was contacted on Tuesday by the president of the Board of Directors of the Vila Franca de Xira hospital, who “deplored the strike and assured that he had already communicated to the guardianship the intention and interest of the hospital in adhere to the Collective Labor Agreement, which will already have a favorable opinion from the Ministry of Healthlacking only the opinion of the Ministry of Finance”.
“We workers have been waiting for a year, with great patience and serenity, for the resolution of this situation,” said Ana Amaral.
The Union of Workers of the Public and Social Function of the South and Regions sends for a later date the disclosure of the unemployment numbers, but Ana Amaral admits that the affiliation can be “between 60 and 70%” and guarantees that “minimum services are being met”.
The Lusa agency tried unsuccessfully to contact the Vila Franca de Xira Hospital administration.
Source: Observadora
