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Health care workers went on strike on 17 September over budget cuts that have left them without overtime pay and pay for staff on call. According to the trade unions, 46,000 nurses and doctors joined the strike, which continued to guarantee emergency services. The nurses’ union reported widespread intimidation of striking nurses by hospital managements, who demanded lists of nurses participating and made threats of dismissals. The benefits were scrapped earlier this year due to the state’s budget deficit. This is the first time since 2005 that health care staff is on strike.
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For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.