The health unions are preparing a mobilization scheduled for Wednesday, July 21, against the vaccine obligation. The announcement was made by the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, during his last televised intervention. “What we lack are the means and the personnel to treat”.
Since this Thursday (July 15) and for two days, a health inter-union brings together officials from public hospitals by organizing general meetings on the various sites.
For the organizations CDMT, CGTM, CONVERGENCE INFIRMIÈRES 972, FO, UGTM, and USAM, this involves preparing a mobilization scheduled for Wednesday, July 21, 2021, “up to the challenges and attacks against our fundamental rights” according to staff representatives.
Instead of providing lasting answers to the additional difficulties that we have been encountering for a year and a half, this government and its President are offering us a stick: get vaccinated or go!
Among the announcements made by the President of the Republic on Monday July 12, 2021, during his address to the nation about the deteriorating health situation, the unions denounce pell-mell, the obligation of vaccination and the threat of disciplinary sanctions going until dismissal, the “stigmatization of health workers who were supposedly heroes on the war front”, recalls the intersyndicale, or the non-respect of the free choice of vaccination.
“Means and personnel to treat”
These provisions are unacceptable, while what we lack are the means and personnel to treat, not an obligation to be vaccinated.
They know this, because for years we have not ceased to warn about the risks that the State poses to the population with the closure of beds, services, hospitals, the lack of doctors, the lack of caregivers. , the lack of equipment and the dilapidated condition of certain establishments.
In their common leaflet dated July 14, 2021, the 6 trade unions talk about“frontal attacks” from the President. The parade of July 21, 2021, could be rallied by citizen movements, in disagreement with the recommendations of the executive.
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