Hospital doctors warning strikes on Monday

Hospital doctors: warning strikes on Monday: For Monday, doctors in hospitals have announced warning strikes. Background is a collective bargaining dispute between hospital doctors with their representation, the Marbuger Bund and the Association of Municipal Employers' Associations (VKA).

For Monday, doctors in hospitals have announced warning strikes. Background is a collective bargaining dispute between hospital doctors with their representation, the Marbuger Bund and the Association of Municipal Employers' Associations (VKA).The strike is scheduled to start at five o'clock on Monday morning and end at 5 o'clock. With the twelve-hour warning strike, the clinicians want to make pressure in the negotiations with the municipal employers on a solution.

Hospital doctors charge an average of five per cent more salary and pay for on-call, bank holidays and weekend pay for their work. In addition, in the future, young career starters in the hospital medical service should receive a better salary earlier. In a first round of negotiations on 18 January 2010, there had been no agreement.

The chairman of the Marburger Bund and CDU member of parliament Rudolf Henke, told the newspaper „Rheinische Post (RP) in the Saturday edition stated that the hospital doctors would be very willing to change the current salary and employment situation and that this will to work disputes would be underestimated by the municipal employers.

The chief negotiator of the municipal employer, Joachim Finklenburg, who has been in office since January 2008 and is managing director of Kreiskrankenhaus Gummersbach GmbH, rejects the proposals and described the required increases as „disproportionately“. He receives indirect support from the chairman of the AOK Rheinland / Hamburg, Wilfried Jacobs, who refers to the general tense economic situation. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 20.03.2010)