Friday, January 13, 2017

Wage turn: Want to have profits in the health care – financial times

Swedish Municipal turn – and say yes to the profits in health care.

Chair Tobias Baudin says to Dagens Industri that the government should drop the idea of a vinsttak in healthcare:

– You do not see just as clearly that the gains in the health sector presses the terms and conditions for our members.

Government investigators Ilmar Reepalu want to see a vinsttak in all välfärdssektorer. But the support fails – not least for a ceiling in health care.

Doctors and health professionals has already said no. Now turning even fackjätten Municipal in question.

– I think that the government should keep health care off, ” says Local chair Tobias Baudin in the an interview with Dagens Industri.

– health Care, schools and care sectors are very different. In health care profession is a very strong role and the health care system is strictly regulated when it comes to how healthcare should be conducted.

"Many people find that it works"

Municipal has over half a million members and a large part of them are active in the health sector. But they are pressed not as hard of vinstkraven that members in other sectors, according to Tobias Baudin.

– Many among our members and many in the community think that it works well with the hospitals and health centers we have, he says to DI.

What Ilmar Reepalu propose is a vinsttak at seven per cent, plus government borrowing rate, for all companies engaged in publicly funded welfare. ruling coalition parties had agreed and The sweden democrats are against the proposal, but open for discussion. Left party welcomes it with open arms, but find that the ceiling to be even lower.

the Government is expected to come up with a bill this year.

Bought Attendo shares

Last autumn bought Municipal 42 000 shares in the vårdkoncernen Attendo, then worth nearly three million.

It was observed that it was contrary to the local union "non-profit-principle" and the local agent said that it can make members question their commitment when they are pushing the issue of profits in the welfare system.

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