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Healthcare workers' union sends its demands to Latvian Health Ministry
The trade union demands that the average healthcare worker's salary is raised 10% starting from January 1, 2016.
The trade union wants the Health Ministry to prepare and pass the necessary amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers regulations on medics’ wages and financing.
The Council of Latvia's Trade Union of Health and Social Care Workers decided on November 17 that the EUR 10 million that the government had decided to allocate for increase of healthcare workers' wages would not be enough, and that the union would launch pre-strike talks with the Health Ministry.
The union demands that healthcare workers' salaries be raised 10%, which requires EUR 22 million – and set up a reconciliation commission for pre-strike talks with the ministry. The union wants the ministry to present a clear vision of how the funding will be distributed, and how it will reach each individual healthcare worker.