Warning strike on the Cottbus University Hospital: Great Protest on July 3!

Warning strike on the Cottbus University Hospital: Great Protest on July 3!

Cottbus, Deutschland - in Cottbus will lead to a warning strike on the university clinic on July 3, 2025, a Tuesday. The ver.di union is planning a large rally at 8 a.m. in front of the main entrance on Leipziger Strasse, followed by a demonstration via Thiemstrasse and Welzower Straße back to the clinic. The first strikers are expected from 6 a.m. and are expected to stand up for their rights until 10 p.m. Non -medical employees and around 570 trainees who want to raise their voices through this strike are affected. Ver.di's demand is clear: a tariff adjustment to the public service is to be found. This reports Niederlausitz Aktuell.

The warning strikes in the state of Brandenburg take place as part of ongoing collective bargaining for the public service. These were started on May 21, 2025. In the first round of negotiations there was no proposal on the part of the employer, and no agreement was reached in the second round on June 23. The employers' offer of June 16, 2025 remained behind the expectations of the union, which demands a wage increase of at least 8 % or at least 350 euros per month for employees. In addition, an increase in the training allowances and additional free days are required. In a petition, 1,235 supported ver.di demands, while the pressure situation remains tense for employers. This is made clear by ver.di.

The background of a tense relationship

The employers require a term of 36 months for the new collective agreement, while the unions are striving for more flexible handling of working hours and fair remuneration. The differences in the fee for nurses in particular compared to the collective agreement for the public service (TVöD) are significant with around 4,230 euros. Therefore, the pressure on employers will grow to be set, even if the negotiations are made more difficult by the tense financial situation of the employers and the noises of impending elections. According to Tagesschau, the probability for further warning strikes could increase in the near future.

summarized the MUC-CT, which the Carl Thiem Clinic Cottbus took over on July 1, 2024, did not prevent the warning strike at the university clinic. An emergency service agreement was rejected, which means that medical emergency care must be secured by its own emergency services. The need for nationwide and fair working conditions becomes increasingly louder, especially at a time when the federal government has placed an increase in hospital compensation by 6 % from January 2025. The orientation of the university medicine by 2038 is expected to cost 3.7 billion euros, with more than half of it being borne by the federal government.