The Doctors‘ Union and the Medical Staff Union acknowledge that their recent discussions with the Canary Islands Government have led to progress on a number of issues which they are open to considering, although for the time being the strike call they began last Friday remains in place.
The doctors‘ strike in the Canary Islands‘ health service is, in principle, open-ended, but its organisers had already set a date, 26 October, to decide whether to continue it into November.
The general secretary of the doctors‘ union on the islands, Levy Cabrera, has told EFE that they are waiting for the management of the Canary Islands Health Service to formally call a meeting with the strike committee to set out the details of their latest offer.
Doctors' strike: Trade unions are considering new pay proposals
Cabrera has clarified that it is not yet possible to speak of a draft agreement, but rather of a series of proposals that the medical profession is open to considering, as they represent an improvement on the approach taken so far by the Regional Ministry of Health.
This spokesperson for the medical profession states that these advances include not only an increase in pay for daytime on-call duty, but also a commitment to address, in the next three budgets, a series of pay rises which the Canary Islands Health Service claims it cannot implement in a single financial year, the coming one, because it is prevented from doing so by spending limits.
In some cases, according to the trade unions, this would mean that issues which the Department of Health had hitherto refused to address would be tackled during the 2027, 2028 and 2029 financial years.
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