Politics – March 2022
We are an association of various groups and individuals who deal with the
conditions in hospitals, nursing and care work from an anti-capitalist and
feminist perspective.
We advocate for a different health care system:
A system that does not make profit from our health and in which nursing and
care work receives the appropriate appreciation it deserves.
Work in health and care professions, is performed by a majority of FLINTA.
In hospitals, that's 80 percent!
In the Corona pandemic, the situation in our hospitals was brought home to us drastically.
But the problems didn't just arise with the pandemic. Even before that, there was
nursing shortage. It is a consequence of the fact that our health system for years ever
further privatisiert and kaputt is saved. In order to be able to draw as much profit as possible from our health system beds are reduced, care personnel dismantled and badly paid. The case lump sum system leads to a differentiation of
"profitable" and "loss-making" diagnoses. Interventions are planned according to how lucrative
they are.
Our illness and health may be nothing, at which private hospital companies enrich themselves
- therefore we need a profit prohibition in the hospital!
The care and care work is in the Pandemie additional loads and an increased infection risk exposed.
The measly care bonus, which does not even include all relevant sectors
, stands in no relation to the daily load in this job - while the state loosens up currently times evenly 100 billion for weapons, care forces, which fight for better working conditions for years with a unique bonus are fobbed off.
This care is not ensured up-to-date. Nurses are overworked, unseen and
underpaid.
Dignified care work is only possible if the personnel does not stand constantly briefly before Burnout, but has time to respond to the patient*innen and time has to worry about the own health.
In the crisis the situation in the care became once more obvious. Where is the
outcry and protest against it? Why do we simply accept it?
No matter whether in or after the crisis: The health system must orient itself at the needs of the
humans and not at the profits of private hospital companies!
Because health is not a commodity!
We want another health system.
A system that orients itself at the needs of the patients and our society
. And in which work is paid appropriately under fair conditions.
Because we as potential patients, our parents or grandparents in the nursing homes
and all other persons in need of care have earned good treatment.
For years, employees at hospitals throughout Germany have been fighting for fair
care for employees and patients, for more time and more staff: in Jena, Mainz,
Berlin or currently in NRW and Dresden.
The Berlin hospital movement has led the way - for a few years now, there have been more and more struggles against the profit logic in the health care system. Strikes have taken place, democratic decision-making structures have been established, and networks have been formed with colleagues. Thus, a movement has emerged that goes beyond the own work area and also opposes the outsourcing and the worse treatment of employees in the laundry or the cleaners.
Today, we want to make this practical feminist strike for the upgrading of care work visible
also loudly on the streets of Leipzig! Because in order to achieve change
we need a broad social support of the health workers and
political demands!
We need a solidary health system, in which all care and care work is recognized, valued and appropriately remunerated - whether paid in the hospital or lay care in the own household. And above all, we also need a
health care system - to which everyone:r has access: regardless of financial means,
skin color or passport.
Capitalism, in which health and care are treated as commodities, fails
to provide basic health services on a daily basis. That's why
we are organizing and pressuring together. We demand that caring, nurturing and relational work be consistently placed at the center of our thinking and economics in the long term and declare war on the patriarchal division of labor!
We want to combine these struggles and demand:
- More staff in the hospital - with better working conditions!
- Abolition of the case lump sums and need-based financing in the
health system
- More money for system-relevant occupations altogether!
- Profit prohibition in hospitals. Socialization of private hospital groups!
- Health must not be a commodity!
