REPORTAGE
They have until Monday to work on the draft agreement with the government: the hospital unions have completed negotiations on the "Ségur de la santé" with a plan to upgrade the paramedical and non-medical professions. Among the measures: an increase in net monthly wages of 180 euros, 15,000 hirings including 7,500 job creations and an overhaul of the salary scales. But for the nursing staff of Pitié-Salpêtrière that Europe 1 encountered, all these announcements remain vague and far from satisfactory.
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"A blow from the club"
"There is the exhaustion of the management of the Covid-19, there was the hope of the Ségur in saying that finally we recognized our value ... And Thursday is the fall", laments Sabine, nursing assistant , whose abatement can be read in the eyes. The announcements are felt "like a sledgehammer", after weeks of intense negotiations.
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For her and her colleague Manuella, 21 years of service, this 'Ségur de la santé' is too much disappointment. "It doesn't change anything there! Twice 90 euros, great! So we are the heroes for a day and there we are going to give you little jokes, well done! I say to myself 'do I still want to fight for that ?' No, my only desire is to change careers. "
The under-staffed public hospital
It would not be the only one to reorient itself. Many caregivers stay in the hospital but go to private establishments. And the volunteers will not rush to replace them, insists Sophie Crozier, head of the service. "At the Assistance Publique, we already had that, we said 'we're going to put 100 euros more for the emergency doctors' ... they found some but we didn't manage to recruit everything "It was necessary in the emergency services," she said.
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"Because it remains extremely low wages compared to extremely important responsibilities and working conditions that few people, I think, would accept today in our society," recalls the head of service. Difficult for her to imagine that the 15,000 hires promised will actually strengthen the teams of the public hospital.