daily strike at Valmy hospital over a question of bonuses
This is a France Bleu Bourgogne information. At the Dijon Bourgogne private hospital, in Valmy, the staff who work on an outpatient basis have the unpleasant impression of being had, especially the nurses. According to them, a year ago, they learned that their colleagues in the operating room were receiving a bonus. Except that in the outpatient department, no one saw the color. They then asked the management to be also concerned by this check, in vain. Since Monday, December 5, they have been launched a disengagement operation an hour, every morning around 7 a.m., to be heard. Other trades, such as cleaners and stretcher-bearers, have joined the movement.
A feeling of inequality
The problem is not that some have a premium. But let it not be given to everyone. This will create a feeling of inequality, as ambulatory nurses and theater nurses have mostly the same degree. The demonstrators tried to dialogue with the management to obtain this first. Categorical refusal. According to them, the management replies that this first is intended for “nurse technicians”, and that it does not concern them.
The argument of this “technical” side does not at all please the striking personnel. “To say that we are not technicians, what does that mean? What is it like to be a technician?asks one of the striking nurses. Yes, it’s true that we’re not in the operating theatre, that we don’t serve doctors, that we don’t open boxes. But, besides that, we welcome patients, we put infusions, we probe, we have technical acts.“So what dominates is this feeling of being left out.”It’s discriminatingshe insists. We are actors in this company, we can claim, we too, to our piece of cake.“
A necessary breakout
The staff who initiated this walkout do not do so with lightheartedness. “This is very sorry to take the patients hostagesays a nurse on the ward. But we have nothing for nothing either. Admittedly, they are taken hostage for only one hour and they are still taken care of, they are in the operating room.“The strikers insist that they do not want to harm patients, but that it is the only way to be heard.
This walkout is also an opportunity to inform patients directly about the situation of the nursing corps. “We have more than pathetic salaries compared to the public service. For a nurse, we can count nearly 500 euros difference with the CHU, explains one of the strikers. On the impression of having diplomas at a discount. At some point, shareholders will also have to react to this.“
Contacted, management did not did not wish to answer our questions.