The National Union of Social Workers (SNAS) said this Saturday that the Health Center Groups are imposing rules for the organization and operation of the profession, alleging that the creation of professional centers depends on the Government.
According to the union, the groups of health centers (ACES) are giving instructions to social workers to “create professional centers”, a competence that belongs to the professional orders and whose creation implies an “office of the Ministry of Health, as well as what happened to the professional centers in the areas of Nutrition and Psychology”.
“Several social workers refuse to comply with such an indication,” the SNAS also assured, adding that these professionals consider that the ACES “do not have the competence to legislate and replace the Government” in this matter and that, therefore, “they are being prosecuted and reprimanded with an attempt to initiate a disciplinary proceeding for the minor infraction of a rule”.
The union also stressed in a statement that the Order of Social Workers, created by law in 2019, “remains inert, because the Ministry of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security continues to successively extend the mandate of the installation commission, instead of publishing ” the necessary norms so that elections are called and the respective bodies are elected.
“Social workers are exhausted by overwork,” warned the union structure, which announced that it will soon create a working group to develop a guide for the organization and operation of the profession, which will include the Centers for Professional Social Services.
In addition, the SNAS will request a hearing from the Ministry of Health and various entities, guaranteeing that “it values dialogue to reach compromises to the detriment of the usual forms of union struggle.”
Source: Observadora
