You are watching the demonstration by the Vivantes subsidiary companies.
We are paid like second-class citizens
within our own state-owned company.
What we demand is the TVÖD rate!
TVÖD!
Hi, my name is Nancy Hoffmann. I work
in the Sterile Supply Department at Humboldt Hospital and am a Sterile Processing Technician.
The central sterile supply department means we reprocess surgical instruments
so that the operating room can continue operating efficiently.
We work in three shifts, weekends, holidays, around the clock.
So our demand is 100% TVÖD.
We'll fight for it until we drop, because we need the money.
We want equal pay for equal work.
Yes, my name is Nico Dehm. I am a sports therapist.
I work in Vivantes Rehabilitation.
And I am part of the bargaining committee for the current dispute.
We have colleagues who sometimes work hand in hand with us.
and they deserve a 100% standard public service contract.
But we don't get it. Why is that?
The subsidiaries were spun off years ago.
And ever since, we've been promised again and again
by politicians - we're standing right in front of the House of Representatives -
that the reintegration of the subsidiaries and thus
the alignment with 100% TVÖD would be implemented.
And to this day, that hasn't happened.
We are currently in wage negotiations and
I have to tell you, I am really angry!
For 10 years, for 10 years we've been fighting for TVÖD.
And I'd like to briefly explain what this has to do with
the political framework as well.
For 10 years, it's been stated in the coalition agreement
that a TVÖD alignment is supposed to happen now.
For 5 years, the coalition agreement has stated that reintegration should take place.
And here we are again today.
We still don't have 100% pay equality,
we don't have company pension limits.
And I have to tell you, I am fed up.
We are placed in worse pay grades.
And one of the most important points, we have no additional old-age provision.
Every single person working for the Vivantes subsidiaries
will inevitably end up in old-age poverty.
Our salaries won't be enough
for our regular pension to cover living costs.
And in the public sector, there is precisely
the VBL, the supplementary pension scheme, for that.
The supplementary pension scheme protects us from old-age poverty.
And that is very, very important to us.
Hello, I'm a doctor in advanced training.
I want you to briefly say, well
we also stand for this, we are a hospital.
We all know this.
Without all of us, without you all, nothing works at all.
And that is very important to us.
And therefore, many thanks that we are allowed
to be here today, together with you.
That you are standing up for the fact that the same rights
apply to all employees in the hospital.
We, as employees organized in Verdi, have the right
to strike and take to the streets for this demand.
That is a fundamental right.
And what did the employers do?
The employers sued us.
They went to court and there, during
a hearing, they agreed on emergency services.
Or rather, the emergency service was ordered by the judge, and it is so immensely high
that, in principle, for tomorrow, for the third
day of the strike, full staffing levels were ordered.
In some cases, more people have to work tomorrow than
work on a normal, regular working day.
And that during a strike.
A management always has two options on how to behave.
Of course, they also have their constraints.
But they can side with the employees
and make it clear together with us here to the politicians:
You have to give us the money.
What does Vivantes do instead?
They drag us to court and impose emergency services on us
that correspond to the target staffing level on the third day of the strike
and jeopardize the impact of the strike.
Dear people, that is not the right way to behave.
They argued that emergency care must be ensured,
but elective surgeries, everything that could be postponed, can be postponed.
Emergency treatment is always guaranteed.
We stand for that too.
We always offer emergency services.
We always ensure that enough people are working in the hospitals.
And that's why our demand is also,
to put pressure on the politicians
and on the management of Vivantes,
so that the right to strike, a fundamental right, is not restricted.