Nurses end strike at Warsaw hospital
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
09.06.2016 08:58
Nurses have ended a 16-day strike at a Warsaw paediatric hospital after unions and authorities came to an agreement late on Wednesday.
The Children’s Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Day-to-day activities at the Children’s Memorial Health Institute (CZD) in the Polish capital are expected to return to normal over the next few days after four wards were earlier closed because of the strike.
In a statement read out to the media, the parties said that agreement is “not fully satisfactory” to either the hospital authorities or the unions, but they decided to end the dispute as “an expression of compromise for the good of the young patients of the Institute”.
The Institute is one of the country's foremost children's hospitals.
According to Poland's PAP news agency, the agreement will see nurses at the hospital receiving a PLN 300 a month gross pay raise from August.
The Polish government on Wednesday said it has earmarked PLN 1 million to finance the hospital.
Nurses were demanding higher pay and an increase in staff numbers.
Executives had earlier claimed that the maximum pay rise they could offer is PLN 250 (EUR 67) a month. Nurses had called for twice that amount. (rg/pk)