Strikes are tried to be prevented both by the applications for security measures made by the hospital districts and by the patient safety law passed by the government.
Negotiations to mediate the nurses’ labor dispute will continue today from 5 p.m. Kingdom Conciliator Anu Sajavaara tells STT that he will see at the meeting whether there are any prerequisites for giving a settlement proposal.
After that, according to Sajavaara, there are three options as to how things will proceed.
“The first is that the presentation is given. Then the parties usually have about a day to decide whether they accept it. So, tomorrow or Thursday at the latest, it should be announced what the parties’ position is.”
If the parties accept the settlement proposal, the announced industrial action will be cancelled. Another option is that the motion is granted, but one or both parties reject the motion. In this case, the planned strikes will probably take place.
“If the proposal is rejected, mediation will continue when the parties are ready to move on their own demands,” says Sajavaara.
The third option is that the national mediator does not see the conditions for a settlement proposal and it is not given. In this case, too, the strikes will probably take place and mediation would only continue when the parties are ready to be flexible about their demands.
Sajavaara according to the negotiations, good progress has been seen in other respects, but salary issues are still looming.
“For example, there has been clear progress in matters concerning working conditions. When it comes to salary issues, the parties are still very far apart.”
Tehy and Super have already moved from their original goal, but there is still talk of a significant increase in wages, says Sajavaara.
“And in the municipal sector, there is very little room for maneuver.”
The government is scheduled to discuss the patient safety law on Tuesday evening, which aims to secure the minimum level of patient safety. Primarily, the purpose of the law would be to oblige employee organizations to ensure that the employer has enough employees to secure the necessary social and health care during industrial action.
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Sajavaara says that the progress of the law has not affected the negotiations in the nurses’ labor dispute.
“The legal process progresses at its own pace and affects whether the strikes will take place. Mediation does not take into account things that happen outside the mediation process. What happens outside the Boulevard is not about mediation.”
Done and Super announced this morning that the day-long strike at Kanta-Häme Central Hospital’s intensive care unit will move from Friday this week to next Monday.
Sajavaara says that he only received a notice from the unions about the postponement of the strike, but no grounds for the postponement.
“The first question that will be discussed in the meeting with the parties today is that what this [lakon siirto] mean.”
Tehy and Super have also issued strike warnings to the hospital districts of Northern Finland and Northern Ostrobothnia, as well as home care services in the cities of Helsinki and Oulu.
In both hospital districts, the strikes have been postponed by two weeks from the original date at the request of the national conciliator. In Finland proper, the strike is scheduled to start on Tuesday of next week at the earliest, and in North Ostrobothnia on Tuesday, September 27 at the earliest.
Hospital districts are trying to prevent strikes through the courts. The hospital district of Varsinais-Suomen filed an application for protective measures with the Helsinki district court yesterday, based on which the court could prohibit the implementation of the strike.
Yle reported today that the North Ostrobothnia hospital district has also filed an application with the district court to prevent the strike. According to Yle, the request concerns intensive care at Oulu University Hospital and is justified by patient safety, as in the cases of other hospital districts.
Likewise, the Kanta-Häme hospital district plans to submit an application for protection measures to the Helsinki district court.
The leaders of both the Kanta-Häme and Varsinais-Suomen hospital districts told STT yesterday that they are trying to prevent nurses’ strikes so that patient safety is not compromised.
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