Toulouse: CHU Purpan emergency caregivers will go on strike again
A meeting between the unions and the management of the CHU Toulouse Purpan failed to reach an agreement. Caregivers announce a new strike.
The situation is bogged down in the emergency room of the CHUToulouse Purpan. After the massive strike on Monday and Tuesday, caregivers are preparing for a new mobilization. This Thursday, a few hours before a meeting with the management, the CGT and SUD organized a press conference to recall the situation of the service.
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“Our working conditions are deteriorating over the days”, a nurse assured. While the number of patients has increased in recent months, the number of emergency paramedics has not increased. In this daily “tight flow”, according to caregivers, recruitment becomes “essential”. “Reports of imminent serious danger were made to the executives, who remained idly by”, denounces a caregiver.
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During negotiations with management, the unions recalled the staffing needs: three nurse/caregiver pairs in the hub, three nurse/caregiver pairs in the green zone, an outpatient emergency caregiver, a caregiver in the vital emergency reception service, two reception organizer nurses; a stretcher-bearer and the opening or reopening of somatic and psychiatric downstream beds.
Strike next week
But the negotiations broke down. The CHU Toulouse Purpan indicated that “the slightest hiring of staff” was not on the agenda, according to the unions. Asked, the health establishment did not wish to speak.
For the moment, the caregivers have not communicated which day they will be on strike, but the notice filed since June 7 is still running. “After the failure of this meeting, the staff is more than ever determined to be heard and not to not give in,” says a nurse.
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As part of a national appeal launched by several trade unions, caregivers are called to demonstrate next Tuesday. The hospital’s paramedic team may well go on strike that day.
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