Various news.
1. Strike midwives.
In March 2011, in North Rhine-Westphalia will strike midwives.
Many midwives work in Germany on the basis of freelancing, hospitals prefer to contract with such "entrepreneurs" rather than hire their own. Income such free midwives - and are highly specialists - have become so low that they are already impossible to live. Their hourly earnings are lower than earnings of unskilled cleaners.
Average midwife earn in a year about 14 000 euros, while it pays the liability insurance in 3700 euros per year. Without insurance midwife has no right to work - indeed, in childbirth can happen, anything, and the judges always make it a midwife maternity pay huge fines for harm, not especially sorting out what happened. Thus the monthly earnings of a free midwife is incredibly low - high responsibility, high skill and labor intensity.
Midwives are trying to fight for their rights has long been, by all means, but strikes have been exhausted, and now They thus try to attract the attention of politicians to their problems and somehow maintain the financial area obstetrics.
Strike in facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hebammenstreik-NRW/138109172915246
2. Mockery of the recipients of the Harz-4.
yesterday ended talks SPD and the government parties in the Harz-4. I must say that Linke party to the talks in general were not allowed, and the Greens had previously refused to participate in this matter. So a compromise was reached between the CDU-CSU, FDP and the SPD (which, in general, is completely understandable).
As we know, last year the Constitutional Court has demanded the government review ensure by law the Harz-4 to conform to the 1st article of the Constitution, "Human dignity is inviolable" - that is, provided a worthy human life.
currently benefits for the unemployed (after 6 months of "normal" benefits), and simply in need of help (for health reasons, for example) people have such a life can not provide.
In fact, it does not provide costs for electricity and heating; on transport; insufficient and the amount allocated to food. Ridiculously small sums allocated to the lives of children and of their right to full development and education is not the question.
Under achieved between the bourgeois parties, compromise, grant this year, as planned, will be increased by 5 euros, and in early 2012 - for another 3 euros.
This increase so ridiculous that the law would have been better if the government honestly expressed its unwillingness to do the will of the Constitutional Court. It looks like a sophisticated mockery of the people.
social organizations, academics and the opposition called the compromise "bazaar" and to be unconstitutional.
Head Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband called the result "slap in the face to those whom it concerns, and direct aggression against the Constitutional The court. "
Linke party leaders remarked: "This is the real scandal: the high contracting parties argued for 8 weeks to achieve improvement benefits as a whole for 8 euros. The same parties did not take a week to allocate 480 billion euros to rescue banks. " Party Linke stated that would have no objection to the Bundestag against such innovations and use all available legal means to exercise the right stated in the Constitution, decent human subsistence.
Cologne scientist Professor Christoph Buttervegge called the compromise reached impure transaction, noted that The Constitutional Court in this case hold policy for idiots and do not take its decisions seriously. "Allowance should be calculated clear, transparent manner and meet human needs. On this question there, "- said the scientist.
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