Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) – Nursing staff and other non-medical employees at the Frankfurt University Hospital began a two-day warning strike on Thursday. It leads to “significant restrictions on medical care,” as the university hospital announced. Some wards will be closed completely, in many others the number of beds will be reduced. Operations and other interventions that could be planned had to be largely canceled or postponed. The emergency care remains guaranteed, it said.
The Verdi union had called on around 4,000 employees to do so, and according to the union, around 400 employees took part in the walkout on the first day. Verdi and the clinic management have been negotiating a so-called relief collective agreement for nursing staff for weeks. Negotiations are set to continue on Friday. The warning strike should only end on Friday with the late shift.
Verdi calls for “binding minimum personnel requirements in all areas of work, laid down in a collective agreement, improved training conditions, more jobs in all areas of work and compensation for work in overwork situations”.
