Overview
- O’Mega, the main doctors’ union in Galicia, announced a four-day strike for late April across the public health system.
- The union demands talks on a Galicia-specific collective agreement that sets pay and working hours for physicians.
- Key proposals include a 35-hour workweek, a 1,533-hour annual cap on ordinary hours, and an update to variable productivity pay.
- The call also folds in doctors who stopped doing extra hospital shifts, who seek higher overtime rates, safer on-call rest, and restoration of lost leave and bonus pay.
- In Catalonia, Metges de Catalunya set its tenth strike since October for the same week, aligning with a nationwide protest against the Ministry’s ‘estatuto marco,’ a proposed rules framework for health staff.