The Spanish Confederation of Medical Trade Unions (CESM) has announced that it will not join the general strike called for this Wednesday, 11 November, by different trade union organizations, including UGT and CCOO, by understanding that this protest does not include the specific labor demands of doctors and medical practitioners.
The organization recalls that the demands of the medical group were left out of the negotiations on the draft of the Framework Statute carried out for months with these trade union confederations, and therefore it casts doubt on whether professionals are now being called to participate in a general mobilization in defense of their rights.
CESM also warns of the danger that the labor demands of doctors and medical practitioners may be used as a "weapon of partisan confrontation" a few weeks before general elections and considers that the strike is not the appropriate way to achieve the improvements that the group demands.
The Confederation maintains as the pillars of its demands the approval of a statute and a specific negotiation framework, a professional classification aligned with the requirements of training and responsibility, a balanced regulation of working hours and on-call shifts, as well as decent pay conditions.
The organization insists that these own demands of doctors and medical practitioners must not be diluted in a general call with "broader and cross-cutting" objectives.