The Portuguese Nurses’ Union (SEP) said this Friday that it will maintain the strike on May 10, after meeting with the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, stating that nurses “want answers much sooner”.
“The Ministry of Health did not make a commitment this Friday, until May 10th, the day of the national nurses’ strike, to establish all the matters to be negotiated, the topics to be negotiated and the negotiating agenda”, said the president of the SEP, José Carlos Martins, leaving the Ministry of Health, in Lisbon.
The SEP scheduled a national strike for May 10th, with a rally at 11 am in Campo Pequeno, in Lisbon.
“The problems are so well-known and so serious, there are so many injustices and so much discrimination, that nurses want answers much sooner”, he highlighted.
According to José Carlos Martins, the Ministry of Health and the Government “did not commit to negotiating”, among other things, the counting of points and the change to the nursing career.
“He did not undertake to negotiate this, to fix these topics, in a negotiating protocol, until May 10th, which pushes us to carry out this strike”, he stressed.
José Carlos Martins recalled, however, that the Ministry of Health has “the desire to continue negotiating to establish existing matters in a negotiation protocol”, but “it is not compatible with the urgency that nurses have”.
“No prospect of a new meeting was on the table until the 10th of May, and, therefore, we are going ahead with what is the demand, expressing the nurses’ dissatisfaction, so that a solution for the problems can be quickly negotiated. their problems”, he maintained.
The Minister of Health meets this Friday for the first time with the unions representing doctors, nurses and pharmacists, beginning the salary negotiations demanded by the union structures.
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