Nurses Union advances to strike day in February
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February will be a month of struggle for nurses, with the Portuguese Nurses Union (SEP) calling for several strikes throughout the month.
They claim, among other matters, “payment of retroactive to 2018” and the “resolution of all situations that cause injustice”, namely the counting of points. The National Union of Nurses (SNE) also demands the urgent correction of the “irregular application” of the diploma on the counting of points in terms of performance evaluation, on the date of transition to nursing careers.
The fight convened by the SEP starts on the 2nd, with a strike from 10 am to 12 noon at the Centro Hospitalar do Algarve. Then passing through Viseu, Lisbon, Porto, Algarve, Leiria or Figueira da Foz. That union claims, in a statement, “the counting of points to all nurses promoted to the specialist and chief categories between 2004 and 2011; the accounting of points to all precarious links; and the accounting of points per calendar year”. They also demand the “payment of retroactive to 2018”, having already requested, they say, a meeting with the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro.
The National Union of Nurses, in turn, in a petition, with 365 signatures, addressed to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and the Executive Director of the National Health Service, Fernando Araújo, calls for urgent intervention in the “correction of irregular application of Decree-Law 80-B/2022, of November 28”, which establishes the terms for counting points in terms of evaluating the performance of nursing workers, on the date of transition to nursing and special nursing careers .
The SNE, quoted by Lusa, points out that the collection of signatures comes after the “overwhelming majority of institutions” (EPE hospitals and regional health administrations) did not respond, within the time defined in the same decree, to the nurses’ complaints.
“The SNE has already informed in due time and requested urgent intervention from the Prime Minister, Minister of Health, Executive Director of the SNS, parliamentary groups and President of the Republic, having now carried out this petition that gathered 365 signatures in two weeks, with special emphasis on the collection of a greater number of signatures at the Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal”, they say.
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