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German doctors go on strike
Berlin, Jan 10 (Prensa Latina) At least 50 000 doctors in 600 hospitals throughout Germany go on strike later this month to demand better wages and working conditions, Germanic media reported Wednesday. The main doctors' union Germans, the Marburger Bund, requires a wage increase of six percent for its members, the payment of duty shifts and a reduction of this kind of medical services. According to union leader Rudolf Henke, 55 percent of Doctors working in the municipal hospitals have an estimated five to nine guards each month, which considers abusive. In that sense, Henke denounced the exploitation they are subjected to the German doctors through overwork, with excessive shifts on duty. Employers are not realistic about the number of guards medical, Henke said, revealing that while hospitals saw their profits increase by 4.2 percent during the first three quarters of last year. Predictably, they are not resolved the problem, the strike will begin on January 26 after 92.7 of the doctors Germans, associated with the Marburger Bund, to support such a resolution in protest. The talks between the union health and the association representing employers municipal collapsed last December with union demands for a wage increase of 1.48 percent gradually in 16 months and a single payment of 250 euros for each physician.