The resolution of the nurses’ labor market dispute is also a relief for students in the field. However, the students of LAB University of Applied Sciences fear that the attractiveness of the industry has already taken a permanent hit.
The students are relieved by the creation of a wage agreement in the care sector. However, it does not solve all the problems in the industry.
The wage dispute ended yesterday when the nursing organizations Tehy and Super and the municipal and welfare area employers KT accepted the solution proposal of the national conciliator.
However, Mäkelä is of the opinion that the wage agreement alone does not help to solve the problems of nurses’ working conditions.
– The contract does not change the fact that you have to constantly stretch to overtime and shift changes.
– When the corona crisis was at its worst, we were praised in every speech and houses were lit up. But when we asked for concrete things, the lights were turned off and they wanted to silence us. The discrepancy between words and actions is so huge that I think the attraction of the industry has experienced a permanent crash, says Mäyrälä.
– I haven’t made any decisions about changing yet, but I’ve thought about whether I chose a good field.
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