Nearly 100 midwives of the intersyndicale met on Tuesday in front of the Ministry of Health to demand better salaries. For the Collective, we would be far from the mark.
The last “negotiation” meeting concerning the salary and status of midwives between the Ministry of Health and the trade unions once again turned sour. The CFTC social health, member of the Collective of midwives on strike for more than seven months, in fact preferred to leave the table, on June 3, “with regret”, noting the impossibility of a constructive discussion, “in a incessant hubbub, and a general cacophony. “
Still a paremedicine status
In detail, this Collective of midwives now refuses “to endorse these meetings which can only be summed up as simple discussion groups, during which each one sets out a particular example without a global project for the profession. “
He also notes that the ministry has accepted, at the request of the intersyndicale (CGT, FO, CFDT, SUD, UNSSA), to act on the salary increase before defining the legal framework of the “renewed statute”. A question therefore arises for these angry professionals: “How to define a salary, before defining the framework, if not because we know from the start that it will not change? »As a reminder, while they have a bac + 5, with a first year of medicine and a training of four years which follows to become a midwife, they are still considered as« paramedics »in the statutes of the public service. hospital (FPH).
A salary increase deemed insufficient
Consequently, the Collective of midwives still maintains that the autonomy and justice of the exercise of the profession are prerequisites for salaries, the latter arising from the administrative and statutory position which is imposed on it. “To argue otherwise is nonsense. Maintaining such a schedule was inevitably doomed to failure, ”they write.
The Collective therefore continues to denounce the impossibility of the full exercise of skills, within the FPH, as well as of an increase in salaries up to the level of medical responsibilities. Small clarification recently made in why actor by Caroline Raquin, at the head of the Collective, this salary increase would be 100 euros gross after 15-20 years of exercise of the profession. The provocation of too many for these women.
Conclusion, these health professionals who demand recognition in particular, by finally achieving the status of hospital practitioner are still far from the mark …
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