Staff shortages, cost pressure, and increasing demand for care in Germany: the burden on nursing staff in hospitals is high. More and more qualified staff are leaving the nursing profession due to poor working conditions.
In this episode, Mia Smettan and Chris Neuffer speak with operating room nurse Katharina Jüttner from Leipzig University Hospital. They discuss the current labor disputes in Leipzig, Katharina's perspective on the collective bargaining round, and what a fairer healthcare system could look like. What's it like working as a nurse in the central operating room of a university hospital? Why is the collective bargaining round important for Katharina and her colleagues, but also for all of us? What does a strike in a hospital look like?
We also report on the daycare crisis, budget cuts, and the status of the Self-Determination Act, and ask ourselves: What could solidarity-based outpatient healthcare look like?
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News
Correctiv research on the daycare emergency
Petition “Remove discrimination and mistrust from the Self-Determination Act!”
Alliance for Self-Determination made by yourself on Instagram: @buendnis.selbstbestimmung
Participatory draft
Interview
Katharina Jüttner has worked as a nurse for 21 years and in the operating room at Leipzig University Hospital for eight years. She has been active with ver.di for four years, served on the collective bargaining committee, and helped organize strikes in the hospital's central operating room.
On the collective agreement
Tagesschau: Collective bargaining agreement in the public sector: ver.di and the states reach agreement
Tagesschau: 3000 euros and 5.5 percent more
Morgenpost: Public Service – Why the collective agreement is right
ND Aktuell: New collective agreement – states increase wages
Labournet: Dossier on the collective bargaining round
Documentary “Without us, nothing works!” about the Berlin hospital movement
Documentation “Four Weeks at Most” on the relief movement for hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia
Vision
Brochure Future for All
Music
Rihanna: Work
Scott Holmes Music: Positive and Fun
Tim Taj: Upbeat Happy
Produced with financial support from the Heidehof Foundation and the Anstiftung.
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