Alicante’s senior health technicians will go on strike

The Higher Health Technicians will go on strike on 2 and 3 June. "We are fed up. We are the forgotten, the nowhere," he sums up in conversation with this newspaper Juan Carlos Rodríguez, president of the Spanish Association of Laboratory Technicians (AETEL). He speaks of a collective of about 50.

The superior health technicians have decided to go on strike, specifically on 2 and 3 June. The reason why this decision has been made comes from afar, because the Spanish Association of Higher Laboratory Technicians (Aetel), one of the organizers of the protest, has long demanded the creation of two new degrees, starting from four cycles attached to the laboratory. Thus, they seek that the degrees of Superior Technician in Pathological Anatomy …

The trade unions of the senior health technicians announced on Wednesday the call for a strike on 2 and 3 June after "resulting unsuccessful" their attempts to meet with the Ministries of Health, Education, Vocational Training and Sports, and Science, Innovation and Universities to negotiate the training improvement towards the university degree.

The superior health technicians are called to a strike promoted by the inter-institutional commission for the university degree of medical imaging and radiation therapy, and the commission for the updating to university degree of Clinical and Biomedical Laboratory; Pathological Anatomy and Cytodiagnostic. The specialists demand professional and educational improvements