The Galician Health Service (Sergas) has reported this Friday, two days before the Galician elections, of a salary increase for public workers that corresponds to salary increases in guards and improvements in professional careers, among other concepts.
Through a text message, SMS, Sergas tells staff the “remuneration improvements” that correspond to them in this year 2024.
“From this payroll you will be paid the increase in nights on weekdays by 7.9% and holidays and pre-festive Saturday nights by 15.71%. Friday nights will be paid as holidays,” states the text received by the health workers.
The increases reported this Friday had been agreed between the Galician Health Service and the CIG, CCOO, UGT, CSIF, and Satse unions represented at the Sectorial Table, last April 2023, after several days of strike by the medical staff.
A union member from the Santiago Clinical University Hospital (CHUS) has explained to La Vanguardia that the communication has been carried out in recent days through the platform that Health uses to communicate with workers. This union member explains that at the beginning of the year, they normally announce improvements in professional careers and increases like the one they have announced and that was already agreed upon. For a few days now the Health Department has been especially active in this network. “One SMS a day is fine, two, well, it’s not normal but wow, it has a pass. Three? It’s to send them to… They have made a lot of mistakes. I think the effect could be the opposite of what they are looking for.”
Throughout the electoral campaign the PP has defended the quality of the health service. This is what Alfonso Rueda has done in all his rallies while the opposition questioned the management of the department. The salary improvements announced now, a few days before the elections, send, from the Xunta itself, the message that, perhaps, Galician public health is not doing so well,
