CCOO-A and UGT-A have placed support for the strike at 40% in Andalusian public healthcare and at 50% in the services linked to dependency. With regard to the SAS, both organizations have criticized the Ministry of the Presidency, Health and Emergencies for having been "condescending with other strikes" --with reference to that of the doctors-- but "very strict" regarding the call on November 11.
From the Federation of Health and Sociosanitary Sectors of CCOO of Andalusia (FSS-CCOO Andalucía), they have highlighted in a statement the result of the general strike among staff of the Andalusian healthcare system and of Dependency, despite the "blockade of the fundamental right through abusive minimum services". "The Ministry of Health has been more condescending with other strikes than with this one, since it has only put obstacles in the way so that people can exercise their right to strike," maintains the general secretary of the FSS-CCOO Andalucía, José-Pelayo Galindo.
Workers at healthcare centers and in Dependency services in Andalusia have widely supported the protest called today to demand pay improvements, guarantee decent housing, and stop the rise in prices in the face of inflation that erodes purchasing power. According to data from the Federation of Health and Sociosanitary Sectors of CCOO of Andalusia, 100% of the night shift and 40% of the morning shift staff of public healthcare in Andalusia have backed the strike. Added to this is the 50% of the Dependency workforce, both in care homes and in home help, that has also stopped.
"These are extremely high figures, taking into account the abusive minimums implemented by the Andalusian Administration," asserts the general secretary of the FSS-CCOO Andalucía, José-Pelayo Galindo, who denounces the "indecent abuse" by much of the employer group in the home help service, which he accuses of obstructing the constitutional right to strike. "We are very satisfied with the broad participation in this call and we thank the staff of Andalusian healthcare for their support and the patients for their understanding," the union leader says.
UGT, for its part, has valued the "massive" follow-through in the face of the "orders" from the Department to "maintain today activities that are still pending and that are by no means essential, nor that belong to a holiday". The union criticizes that "maintaining activities and establishing abusive minimum services contrasts greatly with what the Administration has done in other recent strikes". "From UGT, we thank the support of the workers and the understanding of the patients in a situation that has forced us to call this strike and that affects directly the salaries of professionals and access to housing," the organization emphasized in a statement.