Nurses’ organisations oppose the Patient Safety Act and continue to demand better pay and working conditions.
Nurses from Päijäthämälä will take part in a demonstration in Helsinki on Friday. The nurses’ organisations are protesting against the government’s planned Patient Safety Act.
Tehy and Super believe that the law violates the fundamental rights of carers. The proposed law is intended to be used to provide essential health care and home care during industrial action.
Carers from all over Finland are joining the demonstration starting at 11am. On Friday morning, a bus service organised by Tehy trade union 316 left from Lahti market.
Liljeström emphasizes that the solution to the situation is in the hands of the decision-makers.
– It would be high time to use something other than a stick, it would be time to use a carrot.
In Lahti, a group of factory workers boarded the vocational department’s bus. Part of the journey to the demonstration with your own ride. Chief shop steward Liljeström estimates that people from Lahti are making noise already on the way.
– This group never knows how to keep quiet, yes, they tune in those battle cries.
Yle follows the nurses’ demonstration in this story.