Nurses’ unions announce five days of regional strikes
Strikes will take place at the end of April and start of May Several nurses’ unions in Portugal have called five days of rolling regional strikes for the end of
Nurses announce new strike for after elections
One-day strike scheduled for March 15 Nurses will be on strike on March 15, in the fight for updated salary scales, fair pay, better working conditions and a dignified career,
Nursing drain: roughly 1,600 nurses left Portugal last year
That’s over 500 more than left in 2022 Around 1,600 nurses left Portugal last year. That’s 527 more than left in 2022, with Switzerland being the main country of destination,
Nurses protest outside the Prime Minister’s official residence
In São Bento, as close as permitted to the prime minister’s official residence, nurses have been protesting today, with the message that they feel “increasingly discriminated against”. In a lament
Nurses call off strike in light of political crisis
Reason for strike “no longer makes sense” SEP, the syndicate of Portuguese nurses, has called off its strike, scheduled for tomorrow, as it considers the reason – to put pressure
Nurses begin overtime strike till end of year
Democratic Union of Nurses’ strike compounds overtime ban waged by nation’s doctors Nurses began an overtime strike today, called by the Democratic Union of Nurses of Portugal (SINDEPOR), to demand
Nurses begin month-long overtime strike
Strike adds to mounting pressure on mainland Portugal’s State health system With the deadlock between Portugal’s central government and mainland doctors still unbroken, the nation’s nurses represented by union SNE
Nursing union calls overtime strike until New Year
“Response capacity of health service worsens day-by-day, harming all Portuguese people” Portugal’s Democratic Union of Nurses of Portugal (Sindepor) has announced a strike over overtime work in November and December
Nurses syndicate calls national strike for November 10
On the day the government is once more round the table in a bid to break deadlock with the nation’s doctors syndicates, nursing counterpart SEP has announced it too will
Portugal’s nurses union calls strike on overtime
With the Portuguese health service deeply affected by the ban on overtime mounted by doctors’ syndicates, nurses now have called their own ban, to run from October 30 to November