Doctors and teachers take to the streets this Wednesday to demand better wages and working conditions in the first major strike in Catalonia in 2023, while taxi drivers stage a four-hour stoppage against driver-based rental vehicle licenses ( VTC).

At a time when the Government is trying to close an agreement with the PSC to have budgets for 2023 and to be able to allocate more resources to social services, Catalonia is experiencing a day of various protests that, predictably, is translating into problems of circulation in Barcelona, ​​empty classrooms and patients unable to be cared for.

The Minister of Health, Manel Balcells, has not yet been able to close an agreement with the main medical union, Metges de Catalunya (MC), to call off the doctors' strike this Wednesday and tomorrow Thursday, although the dialogue remains open in the face of power reconsider the partial strikes called for next week (February 1, 2 and 3).

The main stumbling block is in the remuneration improvements, which depend on some budgets of the Generalitat not yet closed, and the overload of work, before which the discrepancies on how to solve it remain.

This Wednesday will be the first day of the strike of the medical union -the first since 2018 in the primary and at a general level we must go back to the cuts of 2011-, to which some 25,000 physicians are called to participate, although yesterday it was already held a first day of strikes only called by a minority union and that had little follow-up.

The mobilization of the doctors has been used by the main teachers' union, Ustec, to call its own strike on the same days, in order to request more resources for schools and "shield" the month of July on vacation, after the unrest for the advancement of the start of the school year already applied last September in Catalonia.

Ustec and the minority health personnel unions united in the Catalan Health Union Table will mobilize together in a march that will begin in the Sant Jaume square and end in the Parliament.

Metges de Catalunya, which was the first union to call a strike for these dates, has its own protest action, which consists of a demonstration that will begin at the Health Department and end at Sants Station.

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