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Thousands of doctors protest in Germany, demand higher salaries
2024-03-11 19:11:21 / BOTA
Thousands of doctors at university hospitals in Germany put down their stethoscopes and held rallies to demand higher wages and better working conditions.
About 7,000 doctors from 23 university hospitals took part in the rallies on Monday, according to the doctors' union Marburger Bund.
A fourth round of negotiations between the doctors' union and employers of Germany's federal states had recently broken down. However, Monika Heinold, the chief negotiator for employers, known by the German acronym TdL, was optimistic about further negotiations.
The doctors are demanding a 12.5% pay rise, as well as higher bonuses for regular night, weekend and public holiday work.
In the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone, some 2,500 hospital doctors went on strike throughout the day at all six university hospitals, according to a union spokesman.
About 2,000 strikers from Bavarian university hospitals gathered in Munich. In Stuttgart, protesting doctors placed a symbolic hospital bed in front of the Ministry of Finance - doctors demanded a "financial infusion" for hospitals.
Schleswig-Holstein state finance minister Monika Heinold said she is looking to find a solution acceptable to both sides in the next round of negotiations at the end of March.
The negotiations concern the salaries of more than 20,000 doctors at 23 university hospitals. Other collective agreements apply to doctors in Berlin, Hamburg and Hesse.
The hospital strikes come as Germany faces a wave of strikes in the transport sector. German train drivers and staff at the country's national carrier Lufthansa plan to walk off the job again on Tuesday as part of an ongoing dispute over pay.
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