WEBVTT 1 01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:09.199 You are watching the demonstration by the Vivantes subsidiary companies. 2 01:00:11.159 --> 01:00:14.199 We are paid like second-class citizens 3 01:00:14.199 --> 01:00:17.599 within our own state-owned company. 4 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:22.559 What we demand is the TVÖD rate! 5 01:00:24.840 --> 01:00:26.079 TVÖD! 6 01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:29.159 TVÖD! 7 01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:32.599 Hi, my name is Nancy Hoffmann. I work 8 01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:37.480 in the Sterile Supply Department at Humboldt Hospital and am a Sterile Processing Technician. 9 01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:40.599 The central sterile supply department means we reprocess surgical instruments 10 01:00:40.599 --> 01:00:43.800 so that the operating room can continue operating efficiently. 11 01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:48.639 We work in three shifts, weekends, holidays, around the clock. 12 01:00:49.159 --> 01:00:52.320 So our demand is 100% TVÖD. 13 01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:57.800 We'll fight for it until we drop, because we need the money. 14 01:00:57.800 --> 01:00:59.639 We want equal pay for equal work. 15 01:00:59.800 --> 01:01:02.599 Yes, my name is Nico Dehm. I am a sports therapist. 16 01:01:02.599 --> 01:01:04.519 I work in Vivantes Rehabilitation. 17 01:01:05.280 --> 01:01:08.920 And I am part of the bargaining committee for the current dispute. 18 01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:13.320 We have colleagues who sometimes work hand in hand with us. 19 01:01:13.679 --> 01:01:18.119 and they deserve a 100% standard public service contract. 20 01:01:18.119 --> 01:01:20.880 But we don't get it. Why is that? 21 01:01:20.880 --> 01:01:23.400 The subsidiaries were spun off years ago. 22 01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:28.320 And ever since, we've been promised again and again 23 01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:30.559 by politicians - we're standing right in front of the House of Representatives - 24 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:33.000 that the reintegration of the subsidiaries and thus 25 01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:35.519 the alignment with 100% TVÖD would be implemented. 26 01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:37.400 And to this day, that hasn't happened. 27 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:39.360 We are currently in wage negotiations and 28 01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:42.320 I have to tell you, I am really angry! 29 01:01:43.360 --> 01:01:48.280 For 10 years, for 10 years we've been fighting for TVÖD. 30 01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:50.880 And I'd like to briefly explain what this has to do with 31 01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:53.280 the political framework as well. 32 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:57.000 For 10 years, it's been stated in the coalition agreement 33 01:01:57.000 --> 01:01:59.880 that a TVÖD alignment is supposed to happen now. 34 01:01:59.880 --> 01:02:05.159 For 5 years, the coalition agreement has stated that reintegration should take place. 35 01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:06.880 And here we are again today. 36 01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:11.519 We still don't have 100% pay equality, 37 01:02:11.519 --> 01:02:14.239 we don't have company pension limits. 38 01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:16.880 And I have to tell you, I am fed up. 39 01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:18.800 We are placed in worse pay grades. 40 01:02:18.800 --> 01:02:22.800 And one of the most important points, we have no additional old-age provision. 41 01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:25.800 Every single person working for the Vivantes subsidiaries 42 01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:28.840 will inevitably end up in old-age poverty. 43 01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:30.719 Our salaries won't be enough 44 01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:33.360 for our regular pension to cover living costs. 45 01:02:33.840 --> 01:02:35.480 And in the public sector, there is precisely 46 01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:39.119 the VBL, the supplementary pension scheme, for that. 47 01:02:39.599 --> 01:02:43.119 The supplementary pension scheme protects us from old-age poverty. 48 01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:44.840 And that is very, very important to us. 49 01:02:44.840 --> 01:02:49.320 Hello, I'm a doctor in advanced training. 50 01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:51.639 I want you to briefly say, well 51 01:02:51.639 --> 01:02:54.519 we also stand for this, we are a hospital. 52 01:02:54.519 --> 01:02:55.760 We all know this. 53 01:02:56.119 --> 01:02:59.440 Without all of us, without you all, nothing works at all. 54 01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:00.559 And that is very important to us. 55 01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:03.119 And therefore, many thanks that we are allowed 56 01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:05.559 to be here today, together with you. 57 01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:07.639 That you are standing up for the fact that the same rights 58 01:03:07.639 --> 01:03:10.679 apply to all employees in the hospital. 59 01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:15.639 We, as employees organized in Verdi, have the right 60 01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:19.719 to strike and take to the streets for this demand. 61 01:03:19.719 --> 01:03:21.119 That is a fundamental right. 62 01:03:21.519 --> 01:03:23.039 And what did the employers do? 63 01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:24.679 The employers sued us. 64 01:03:24.679 --> 01:03:28.639 They went to court and there, during 65 01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:31.360 a hearing, they agreed on emergency services. 66 01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:36.039 Or rather, the emergency service was ordered by the judge, and it is so immensely high 67 01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:38.519 that, in principle, for tomorrow, for the third 68 01:03:38.519 --> 01:03:42.320 day of the strike, full staffing levels were ordered. 69 01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:44.440 In some cases, more people have to work tomorrow than 70 01:03:44.440 --> 01:03:46.880 work on a normal, regular working day. 71 01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:48.119 And that during a strike. 72 01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:52.440 A management always has two options on how to behave. 73 01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:55.119 Of course, they also have their constraints. 74 01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:58.800 But they can side with the employees 75 01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:02.239 and make it clear together with us here to the politicians: 76 01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:04.000 You have to give us the money. 77 01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:06.079 What does Vivantes do instead? 78 01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:10.400 They drag us to court and impose emergency services on us 79 01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:13.199 that correspond to the target staffing level on the third day of the strike 80 01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:14.599 and jeopardize the impact of the strike. 81 01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:18.800 Dear people, that is not the right way to behave. 82 01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:23.000 They argued that emergency care must be ensured, 83 01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:28.039 but elective surgeries, everything that could be postponed, can be postponed. 84 01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:31.199 Emergency treatment is always guaranteed. 85 01:04:31.199 --> 01:04:32.199 We stand for that too. 86 01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:34.000 We always offer emergency services. 87 01:04:34.239 --> 01:04:37.079 We always ensure that enough people are working in the hospitals. 88 01:04:37.840 --> 01:04:39.840 And that's why our demand is also, 89 01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:41.800 to put pressure on the politicians 90 01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:43.360 and on the management of Vivantes, 91 01:04:43.559 --> 01:04:47.199 so that the right to strike, a fundamental right, is not restricted.