On the 20th of November 2024, 85% of public hospital workers went on strike. They are complaining about net wages of 3 Euros an hour for junior doctors, 12-hour shifts, endless waiting lists for patients and gross underfunding of the public healthcare system. As a result, young doctors and nurses are going abroad and people in Italy are unable to get appointments with specialists. Those who can afford it are turning to the private healthcare system. With friends from Labournet.tv we subtitled <a href="https://en.labournet.tv/general-strike-hospital-workers-italiy">this short film</a>.
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Film – General strike of health workers in Italy, November 2024

Friends of Labournet.tv filmed a short interview with a striking hospital worker from Leipzig, which you can watch with English subtitles <a href="https://en.labournet.tv/strike-university-hospital-leipzig-2023">here</a>.
Frauke is a nurse at the university hospital in Leipzig, Germany. She talks about what has happened during the strike in 2023 and about how the strike gave her hope. The hospital workers were able to enforce a reduction of working time from 40 to 38.5 hours and a wage increase between 9 and 16%.
After the strike, Frauke and her colleagues founded a hospital workers&#8217; group. They are preparing themselves to enforce a collective relief agreement for better staffing levels.
We have featured articles that look more critically at the relief agreements and the strikes around them, you can read them <a href="https://www.vitalsignsmag.org/posts/current-and-past-hospital-movements-in-germany-conversation-with-a-friend-and-fellow-worker">here </a>and <a href="https://www.vitalsignsmag.org/posts/strikes-have-to-be-able-to-emancipate-what-are-the-results-of-the-berlin-health-workers-strikes-of-2021">here</a>.
The video was created as part of the workshop series &#8220;How to labournet.tv?&#8221;.

Film – General strike of health workers in Italy, November 2024

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