More for the personell, less for the directorate!
Announcement by employees of the university hospital Toulouse 25.01.2018
Hello,my name is Valerie Palao,
I am a nurse in the emergency room in Purpan, Toulouse.
Today we strike, the general medical centre
including the traumatology and tropical medicine (the SMIT) 7 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,160 Also the psychiatric services and the 801, 8 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,000 who are the hospital’s drivers.
We demand new hires.
Being fewer in people we are supposed to work more.
There is not less equipment but less personell.
Today we don’t demand money,we demand more Staff.
So we can provide good care.
We have to prioritize patient’s treatments.
The most urgent ones first and others later,
although to us all treatments are equal
which in my opinion is how it should be.
What did you do today?
We are demonstrating in front of the Hotel Dieu,
the central office of the Human Resources Department.
We want to be heard and are hoping for an appointment
to advance with the negotiations.
During our last three meetings the directorate hasn’t moved an inch.
We want real negotiations.
You need to know that a strike inside a university hospital is very difficult.
We have to stay with the patients.
Employees register as being on strike,
and ward management makes a skeleton staffing schedule.
This leads to bad situations since
the ward’s number of staff is the same on and off strike.
We are always a skeleton staff! It’s complicated.
That’s why it’s difficult for employees to properly strike.
They often participate in such activities in their free time.
Today two, three big departments are on strike,
the participation is good, many people are attending
with the support of the unions SUD and CGT.
We came to the meeting of a hospital committee today
to bring awareness to the current situation.
The main issue is: a lack of personell.
We will face major problems, for example in vacation scheduling.
There is so little staff that one persons absence can make a vacation impossible.
This has been going on for years, so a lot of anger has built up. 42 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,840 Of course we notice this anger…
We provide space for this anger. It is voiced in the context of vacations,
but the working conditions are really bad. People are suffering.
The lack of personell is just one of many topics, but it is a highly explosive one.
In many wards they are as motivated as we are.
Once again: start hiring! One last time: start hiring!
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