Friends of Labournet.tv filmed a short interview with a striking hospital worker from Leipzig, which you can watch with English subtitles here.

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’ 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 here and here.

The video was created as part of the workshop series “How to labournet.tv?”.