German public hospital doctors strike, request more pay, better conditions
Doctors at municipal hospitals across Germany on Tuesday went on strike in support of demands for higher pay and improved working conditions.
In Hamburg, around 2,000 doctors marched through the city centre holding placards reading “Good work, good pay’’, and “overworked and underpaid’’.
The strike targeted public hospitals in seven of Germany’s 16 states and private hospitals in an eighth.
However, emergency care was unaffected by the strike.
The Marburger Bund, medical trade union, is demanding compensation for inflation since the last pay rise in the autumn of 2021, plus a 2.5 per cent pay increase for 55,000 hospital doctors.
It has called further strikes in other states for March 30.
Meanwhile, the VKA employers’ association said the demands for inflation compensation and a pay increase were unreasonable.
“Taken together, they result in a demand of almost 12 per cent, which is unaffordable for municipal hospitals,’’ VKA lead negotiator Wolfgang Heyl said.
(dpa/NAN)
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