Nurses' unions call off strike, preparing for mass resignations

Healthcare employee teams Tehy and SuPer have cancelled a nurses’ strike that was scheduled to start on Wednesday, in response to the specter of a regulation that would successfully power hanging nurses again to work.

The organisations’ respective boards have determined that extra vigorous industrial motion is required as a result of the controversial Patient Safety Act was making progress in Parliament, in line with an announcement from Tehy on Tuesday.

If it’s applied, the Patient Safety Act would allow public healthcare sector directors to order hanging staff again on the job on grounds of making certain affected person security.

The major disputes between healthcare staff and their employers hinge on pay and dealing situations.

Tehy chair, Millariikka Rytkönen, tweeted (siirryt toiseen palveluun) on Tuesday afternoon that as a result of the Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services, Aki Lindén, (SDP) was taking the laws ahead, the union was calling off Wednesday’s strike, preparing for “mass resignations” and different measures.

Rytkönen stated the choice was made “For the simple reason that Minister Lindén broke the legal strike action with forced labour.”

The two-week strike that was scheduled to start on Wednesday would have affected round 35,000 care staff throughout 13 hospital districts.

Meanwhile, the municipal employers’ group (KT) chief Markku Jalonen criticised the nurses’ unions’ resolution to arrange for mass resignations.

An announcement issued afterward Tuesday from KT, the Local Government and County Employers organisation known as the transfer “completely irresponsible.”

Jalonen claimed that nursing teams have refused to offer sufficient workers to make sure affected person security.

“The nurse shortage [problem] must now be resolved and it will only be solved by improving pay and working conditions. It is not only a question for nurses, but for all of Finland,” Rytkönen stated, including that many nurses are ready to go away their jobs.

“This is a terribly sad situation that Finland’s decision makers and employers have wanted to put care providers in such a situation. In fact, they pushed the nurses down a cliff and forgot them there,” she stated.

Meanwhile, SuPer chair Silja Paavola stated the nurses’ scarcity drawback wouldn’t go away by itself even when there was a Patient Safety Act.

On common, nurses earn about 600 euros much less per thirty days than the typical Finn and one-fifth lower than nurses in neighbouring Nordic international locations. Employee unions declare low salaries have led to labour shortages that are impacting working situations.

Edited at 18:37 so as to add feedback from KT chief Markku Jalonen, with a earlier edit clarifying the time period resignations quite than redundancies.