Health professionals demonstrated on January 21, 2021, in front of the Ministry of Health, to denounce their working conditions.

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THOMAS COEX / AFP

Denouncing their working conditions and calling for salary increases, thousands of health and social action professionals demonstrated this Thursday all over France.

Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Ministry of Health in Paris, waving signs: “Our fight, your health”, “Increase our salaries!

"," Money for the hospital, not for the capital ".

"They bait us with 183 euros from Ségur"

"In our establishments we are sorely lacking in professionals" and we link "the question of employment to the attractiveness of our professions and therefore to the salary question, it is important that there be a higher revaluation than that granted in within the framework of Ségur ”, estimated among the demonstrators Mireille Stivala, general secretary of the CGT Health and social action.

"We also denounce that despite the pandemic, despite the difficulties in welcoming the populations, this government is still restructuring establishments and cutting jobs," she added.

There is the “need” to offer “dignified” working conditions to “all social, medico-social, health and animation workers”, “we are baited with 183 euros of Ségur but, when you scratch a little, you have the impression of reading an insurance contract with a whole lot of things that mean that we are not entitled to it, ”lamented Ramon Vila, Federal Secretary for South Health social workers, specialized educator by training.

"There are three emergencies for us: salaries, the number of beds and hiring"

Within the framework of Ségur, a “salary increase” of 183 euros net minimum was proposed to the staff of the hospital and nursing homes, “and the medico-social dances in front of the buffet”, we were “forgotten” while “ we have equal degrees ”, pointed out Juliette Bernard, healthcare manager in a specialized reception center in Chambéry.

"We have never seen within the hospital public service a difference in treatment of the same professionals," said at his side, Marylise Baud, also health executive.

In Marseille, several thousand demonstrators, according to the CGT, also demonstrated waving signs "no euros, no job" or "who sows misery reaps anger".

“There are three emergencies for us: salaries, the number of beds and hiring (…) We need 400,000 job creations, 100,000 in the hospital, 200,000 in nursing homes and the rest in the medico-social and social .

There is growing suffering ”, regretted Cédrid Volait, regional coordinator of the CGT Santé.

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