September 18th Strike: "We must stop managing the hospital as if we were pawns in boxes"... Angry caregivers are organizing a long-term mobilization
Report Before joining the Paris demonstration, around a hundred healthcare workers gathered in front of Saint-Antoine Hospital in the capital's 12th arrondissement. They are protesting wages and working conditions at the public hospital and have filed a strike notice "until the end of the budget debate."
AP-HP healthcare professionals before joining the procession at Bastille, during the day of mobilization on September 18. MANON BERNARD / "LE NOUVEL OBS"
Flags in hand, union vests on their shoulders, around a hundred people wander through the corridors of the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris, one of the 39 AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris) establishments on strike this Thursday, September 18. "Angry hospital, we've had enough of the hassle!" chanted the demonstrators. After an initial mobilization on September 10, the AP-HP inter-union, composed of the CGT, the CFTC, FO and the Unsa, called for a rally in front of the hospital in the 12th arrondissement of the capital at the end of the morning before joining, in a procession, the Parisian demonstration on the Place de la Bastille.
Public hospital staff didn't wait until Thursday to protest the budget. They have been on an indefinite strike since September 1st, and the notice period runs "until the end of the debate on the budget and the Social Security Financing Plan (PLFSS)." For the first time...
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