The National Federation of Unions of Public and Social Function Workers (FNSTFPS) announced this Tuesday that it will call a strike for workers in the health sector for July 1.
The strike, which includes all professionals in the sector with the exception of doctors and nurses, is the first since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and, according to the Federation coordinator, was motivated by old claims that remain unanswered.
“There is a willingness to join the fight because, in fact, they have been waiting for many years to specify and solve their problems,” Elisabete Gonçalves said at a press conference, adding that “after so many pats and pats (during the pandemic), nothing is solve”.
Specifically, the coordinator of the FNSTFPS speaks of problems that affect medical assistants, senior health technicians, and senior diagnostic and therapeutic technicians, and that accentuate instability in health services and harm the National Health System.
These are situations that may seem diverse and distant, but as a whole they generate demotivation for health workers, which in terms of retention of health workers does not benefit”, he said.
Elisabete Gonçalves mainly denounces problems related to the career of these professionals, demanding the substitution of the assistant technician career, and also criticizing the change in the career of higher diagnostic technicians that “does not reflect the specificities of these workers”.
“As for the senior health technicians, they have been fighting for years for public tender procedures that are not being carried out, which limits the assessment of these workers,” explained the coordinator.
The strike of July 1 is aimed at all workers in mainland Portugal and the autonomous region of the Azorespreceded by a strike on June 30 in the autonomous region of Madeira, as the following day is a public holiday.
Source: Observadora
