My name is Ramona Weiß,
I work in module supply in Mitte.
this is a branch of logistics.
We stack the shelfs,
we provide everything the nurses need.
My name is Dirk Boramin,
i transport patients,
I'm a trained paramedic, I work in the ambulance service of Mitte
My name is Sacha,
i work in the medical chart archive
I work in transport logistics, at Campus Virchow Klinikum
CFM is a subsidiary of the Charité
A logistics worker directly employed by Charité
earns something like 600€ more per month.
And on top of that he gets holiday pay and christmas bonus.
and he gets 30 days holidays, i get 26.
This are the conditions.
We get treated differently.
They have more liberties, they get away with more.
If there is a job to do that is not so nice,
we will be asked to do it.
Of course that feels unfair.
We want equal pay for equal work.
We demand the same conditions as in the collective wage agreement of the public sector.
Since 2011.
2011 we were on strike for three months.
We made a bit of progress then,
not as much as we hoped, but what should we do.
We were not so many back then, we were only 150 to 200 people.
Then we were on strike again in 2016.
Eventually step by step we got 11,50€.
There is no mention of step by step programs in the wage agreement.
And now we are on strike
to get in the collective labour agreement for the public sector.
The plan for the next years is clearly stated in the coalition agreement.
can you explain what it says?
That we will get raised to the level of the collective labour agreement.
The board of directors still didn't decide anything,
We as a workforce of 3000 people are pretty stunned,
that also on the political side nothing moves.
It says in the Berlin coalition agreement:
" The coalition is committed to ensuring
that also state owned companies and their subsidiaries
that are not yet bound by collective labour agreements
swiftly conclude labour agreements
with the aim of alignment with the collective labour agreement for the public sector."
I would say it like this,
this weekend, at the party conference of the left party
we were also there. We only heard good things from them.
That they support us. But we don't see anything.
And again this is a bunch of money that slipped though our fingers.
We still work for peanuts.
We don't get any of them to sign a form or anything.
To get what they tell us written and signed.
They refuse.
We are now since 10 days on strike
They offer very little.
it is about single gross payments of 300€ per year.
Nothing about collective labour agreements.
At the moment we get 12,50€ per hour. The regional minimum wage.
We were offered a single payment of 300€.
In return, for economic reasons,
the so called attendance bonus for parts of the logistics sector
was reduced by 50%.
This is just money shifting, I would say.
I put in your left pocket,
and take it from your right pocket.
At the moment, where we are still in the holiday season,
and lots of people are sick, we are between
200 and 300 Verdi members on the street.
Unfortunately, the workers directly employed by Charité don't join in.
They are more annoyed that we do this.
I would like them to join in, that would speed everything up.
But not even all of the CFM workers joined,
because they are still afraid to loose their jobs,
or they have a family, or need the money.
In our department of logistics 98% are union members.
So our department stands still.
Out of 50 there is two left inside.
The others are out here.
They notice it already, i think.
It is going for some days now,
It probably already effects the procedures.
but they will play it down, as they did last time.
Like, no it's all fine, when in reality everything is falling apart.
Going on Strike in a state-owned hospital
At the moment they make do with contractors, temps and interns.
Even the nurses do the charts sometimes,
but only because the doctors pressure them.
Because they have to do surgeries.
I saw it myself, i was there last week
when a nurse came to the smokers corner and said,
the doctors put us under pressure, they have to operate, they shout at us.
I was also told by one of the bosses,
think well about who you need to get along with in the long run.
Do you wan't to do this to yourself? Think about if you wan't to stay in the union,
or if you would rather keep working for Charité.
Then kick me out, i said.
I don't want to work for a company that treats me like this.
In our department, they recently even used "Go" workers to do our job.
Its the logistics department, in the basement.
I heard there is 15 to 20 people who were told they are still employed,
but they are not allowed to do anything.
The work was taken on by this "Go" company.
These people get paid even less than we do.
9€ something, underpaid.
I also don't want to forward this. That now these people get exploited.
For this kind of money they shouldn't work at all.
The Charité now keeps paying the logistics department and pays this "Go" company.
To us this is a new outsourcing!
We see it as interfering with union work.
I personally would keep going until there is a solution.
I will not be intimidated.
I just want to be treated equally.
I don't want them to have less holidays, I just want as much as they have.
Equal money for equal work.
In all sectors,not only module supply. For the cleaning personnel as well.
In case module supply and logistics would get it all, but the cleaners not,
I would continue to strike, because that is not everyone.
It is exactly like in the slogan: one contract for all!
I would not stop before. No matter what.
I am not afraid of anyone.
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