The La Pau health transport cooperative has denounced the sabotage of four of its ambulances in the context of the three days of strike in the ambulance sector in Euskadi. This company has also censured "coercion and threats", while the Ambulance Business Association of the Basque Country has criticized the action of the pickets that "have tried to prevent compliance with minimum services in Bizkaia through coercion." This group speaks of a follow-up of 29%; the unions, meanwhile, have made a positive assessment of the protests.
The Catalan cooperative La Pau has issued a press release to denounce that "sabotage has hindered the correct development of ambulance activity", although, it has highlighted, "they have not caused delays in the services received by patients in the territory." history of Bizkaia”. Likewise, he has criticized the “contempt” towards fellow citizens on the part of “those guilty of these attacks.” The company has reported that these attacks have seriously damaged four vehicles.
This strike, precisely, has been preceded by a controversy over a video that circulated among ambulance workers in which it was pointed out that during the three days of protests "any crime against the company's assets will be legal, including the total destruction of ambulances.”
The Minister of Health, Gotzone Sagardui, also denounced sabotage, as well as threats to companies and the dissemination of "videos inciting the use of violence in the strike in the medical transport of private ambulances."
Beyond the controversy over the methods used by a minority among the strikers, the calling unions, ELA, LSB-USO, LAB, UGT and CCOO, have indicated that "the balance of the strike could not be more positive", although They have pointed out that “the fight will still be long and hard.”
According to the complaint, despite the fact that since August 1 the financing of the successful companies has been improved by 30%, the workforce has lost “13% of purchasing power” in two years. The only improvement offer they have received is 2.5%, they regret.
ELA, the first Basque union, for its part, has warned that "the only solution to this conflict is through real negotiation and addressing the demands of the staff", which is why it has assured that it will continue "in the fight" until achieve that goal.
Finally, the Ambulance Business Association of the Basque Country has insisted on denouncing the "attacks against ambulances, which have left hundreds of dialysis, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, diagnosis, etc. patients without medical attention."
"The intervention of the Ertzainza has allowed the minimum service ambulances to go out to care for patients," he added.
The employers' association has reiterated to the unions its call to recover dialogue and has referred them to the offer made for the Second Ambulance Agreement of Euskadi.
