ZNA staff bombards ships from Doesburg with emails about promised compensation (Antwerp)
The socialist trade union BBTK calls on the staff of the Hospital Network Antwerp (ZNA) to send an email to aldermen of Els van Doesburg (N-VA). they ask that the city of Antwerp fulfill the promises made regarding an extra compensation for the deployment during corona.
A few months after the outbreak of the corona crisis, the then alderman of Health Care Fons Duchateau (N-VA) promised that each ZNA staff member would have a spending budget of 300 euros. the city would show its appreciation for the work of the staff during this crisis.
Only this budget never materialized. According to the city, Antwerp had already received a consumption voucher for the same. An extra spending budget would not be interesting from a tax point of view. Nevertheless, the staff continues to push for this appreciation by the city. The proposal from the city council was then that they enter the competition for the Ucoins.
“This is too crazy for words”, says Ken Van den Heuvel, BBTK secretary Antwerp. This competition is no guarantee to us that, as promised, a staff member would receive the budget. This has never been communicated directly to the staff either. So we are now trying to get rid of it cheaply.”
According to Van den Heuvel, it is no longer just about the money. “It’s mainly about the appreciation we want to get and we were promised,” says the BBTK secretary.
In order to put the pressure on, the staff is calling on the staff to send emails to ships from Doesburg asking them to send it. “Creative solutions are possible, however, to allow us as staff to receive the promised appreciation,” according to the pre-prepared email to the ships.
About 6,500 people work at the ZNA hospitals. svw