Warning strike in the Belgrade CHC was organised on December 24 last year and after intense negotiations all (eight) strikers’ claims were accepted. The agreement between the union and the management was signed on January 13.
This time strikers (mostly nurses serving food, cleaners and administrative-technical staff) did not claim a usual salary increase, but protested against the lack of personnel.
Typical example of a burn-out has been a nurse obliged to serve food for 110 to 120 patients or deliver it in three separate facilities and the one who was in charge of 22 to 24 patients during her night shift. The number of cleaners was also extremely low: instead of 48 they were only 24!
The agreement that was signed stipulates the employment of additional staff and different distribution of tasks. Over-time, Sundays and night work will be fully remunerated. An anti-mobbing clause was also added, as well as the one defining the payment of stimulant bonuses to professions whose deficiency is strongly felt at Serbian labour market.
Aware of the growing number of doctors and nurses emigrating to EU and further, the management agreed to initiate at the Ministry of Health (within 30 days) the creation of a list of new, more advantageous coefficients used in calculating salaries.
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