Employees of the Salvador B. Gautier Hospital, demanding the 10% salary increase agreed in August 2016, have announced a 48-hour strike, beginning Thursday 25 January 2018. The strike will take place in 21 hospitals throughout the country and 29 first aid centers.
The personnel at the hospitals noted that the government had promised a salary increase for all of the administrative personnel in January 2018. However, some health care workers were left out of the increase.
The hospital workers are also asking for the long service payment to be made to 2,700 staff members, according to an agreement signed with the director of the National Health Service (SNS), Nelson Rodríguez Monegro.
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El Dia
23 January 2018
