A gathering of staff took place today around 12 p.m. in front of the Ormeau Pyrénées site, as part of a day of action by health and social action staff, at the call of the CGT in particular.
“The deterioration of our working conditions has intensified since the end of the visit for the certification for the quality and safety of care in our establishment”. CGT delegate from the Ormeau polyclinic is sounding the alarm, in front of around fifty staff gathered Tuesday noon in front of the Ormeau Pyrénées site. “We, health personnel in private clinics, are subject to a public policy of austerity in the health sector, but in addition to the demands of our shareholders who want to make a profit, while the Elsan group is doing well. This call for mobilization follows a motion to alert on the serious psychosocial risks that weigh on our employees and a series of announcements of reorganizations, pooling and disappearance of positions, each more worrying than the other, at the detriment to the quality of service.
“A drop equivalent to 20% of the workforce” since 2017
Since 2017, our workforce has gone from just over 500 employees to 408 currently, a drop equivalent to 20%, following the closure of emergencies, the abolition of the territorial palliative care unit and now the night reception. In the space of two years, there have been around fifty resignations that management has no desire to replace. The objective is to no longer resort to CDD (fixed-term contract), but to include all the staff in a giant pool to do self-replacement” regrets Laurence Charroy. “And all this, without revaluation salary, only a small conventional increase of less than 3% which is far from compensating for galloping inflation.
“A loss of meaning at work”
What is increasing in our clinic, as in most healthcare establishments, are the rates for hotel services billed to patients and the loss of meaning at work which keeps professionals away from these sectors of activity and pushes them to resign. To the vastly insufficient salaries, the lack of recognition, we must add the arduousness and now we will have to work longer to hope to obtain retirement. We caregivers, especially women, are mistreated, poorly paid and will be poorly retired.”