LAB and UGT suspend Osasunbidea's strike on Thursday by signing an agreement with the government
- LAB says the government has approved “Proposals to improve conditions for all Osasunbidea staff” and considering that it would be “irresponsible” to call a strike on Thursday. ELA considers that the agreement “is empty and does not imply any improvement in workers’ conditions”. He criticizes the position of LAB and UGT and says he will study the possibility of maintaining the call for strike together with SAE and CCOO.
The LAB and UGT unions have signed an agreement on Tuesday with the Department of Health of the Government of Navarra and have suspended the call for a strike called for on Thursday. Since both unions have a majority in the inter-union convener, the call is cancelled.
LAB sets out the agreement in a note. He emphasizes that the agreement will improve the “working conditions of all staff”: “Among these improvements are the organizational and economic demands, as well as the possibility of participating in all the tables where initiatives are proposed in terms of work overload and staffing levels, both in specialized care and in primary care”. [More details of the agreement in the LAB note]
With the signing of the agreement, LAB says that Thursday’s strike would be “absolutely irresponsible”: “Given that the Parliament of Navarra is going to dissolve soon, that the budget is committed to other interests and that the current leaders have no negotiating capacity, LAB considers it absolutely irresponsible to maintain the current mobilisations.”
LAB has ensured that it will be “vigilant” for the government to “deliver on the commitments outlined”.
ELA against the “content free” agreement
PRESIDENT. — The next item is the report (Doc. The firm considers that ELA is not exhaustive, that it does not “commit” Osasunbidea and that it does not imply “any improvement” in working conditions.
ELA also criticizes that LAB and UGT have signed the agreement “without content” when there were two days left for the strike, and the reason puts it in the “lack of autonomy” of the two unions: “the action of LAB and UGT is conditioned by the lack of autonomy of EH Bildu and PSN”. ELA calls for trade unions to be independent of political parties.
ELA directly criticizes the LAB union: “It is very serious that LAB, in addition to signing the agreement, has abandoned the strike to prevent trade unions that have not signed it from striking.” He intends to speak with the other two trade unions that make up the Strike Commission, SAE and CCOO, on the one hand, to discuss the possibility of “protesting against the agreement” on Thursday and, on the other hand, “more days of strike”.
