After months of negotiations during which 13 meetings were held regarding the new collective agreement for nurses and midwives, the government requested a conciliation process with the union that represents these workers, the MUMN.
This is according to what the collective agreement provides for public service workers. This is a necessary action to ensure that even in a moment where talks are going on about a collective agreement that has matured, vulnerable patients are given the necessary care and therefore the appeal for the negotiations to take place in this spirit of good faith and responsibility towards those who need the health service.
Even more so when in these meetings a number of proposals were made by the government with the aim of improving the working conditions and income of nurses. This is something that the government has consistently done with workers in the health field with various collective agreements in the sector that have been agreed and signed in recent years.
The proposals presented to MUMN in these negotiations were even improved several times and that is why at this moment, where so many patients are being affected by unjustified and reasonable industrial actions, and in the context of increases significant proposals by the government, that the government is choosing to request this conciliation process.
This is with responsibility both towards the workers who want to improve their conditions and towards the patients who must always be given all the necessary care.
