The puncture still does not pass. Since the announcement, at the end of September, of the 250 million euros of savings to be made of their own free will in their sector, liberal biologists have been alarmed by a “plane coup” and have opposed it by all means. .
Fearing a lasting fall in prices, the biologists’ unions first proposed an “exceptional tax” of the same amount, on profits made from Covid tests. In the absence of an agreement, they stopped transmitting the results of these exams to the SI-DEP national archive, interrupting the monitoring of the epidemic for a week.
A boycott considered “inconsistent” and “inadmissible” by the Minister of Health, François Braun, who even accused them of “taking the entire population hostage.”
A movement of at least 3 days.
But this warning shot did not move the lines. Received on Monday night at the Health Insurance, the biologists left there denouncing an “austerity madness” and calling for a “renewable strike” starting on November 14. The movement, which should last at least three days, also has the support of the large groups of private laboratories (Biogroup, Cerba, Eurofins, Inovie, Synlab), as well as the network of Independent Biologists (LBI).
Various unions from other professions have also lent their support to the biologists, including the eleven organizations grouped in the Liberals of Health, as well as the doctors of the UFML.
The executive, for his part, remains firm in his position.
Asked about BFMTV on Thursday, the Minister of Action and Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, for his part, called for medical biology laboratories “to decency.”
senate support
The Health Insurance “continues to favor dialogue” and “deeply regrets the strike call”, judging its proposals “fully sustainable for the biology sector”.
The biologists, however, received this week the reinforcement of the Senate during the examination of the social security budget project. Embracing their claim, the High Assembly voted an amendment that transforms this “permanent reduction into an exceptional contribution of 250 million euros in 2023.”
An outstretched hand that “reopens the way to a negotiated solution”, judge the liberal biologists. It is up to the government and the National Assembly “to take advantage of this opportunity,” they argued.
Source: BFM TV
