Unicamp continued this Tuesday (17) to comply with the agreement signed with the Unicamp Workers' Union (STU), which made it possible to end the strike of the University's technical-administrative employees. In the morning, the Rector's chief of staff, professor Joaquim Murray Bustorff Silva, received representatives from the STU and health workers to discuss topics of interest to employees in this sector. The two parties have established an initial agenda, which will discuss the following issues in specific meetings: moral harassment, absenteeism and illnesses at work, staffing and democratization and financing of the health sector.
The first meeting was scheduled for August 21st. The rest will take place sequentially on the last Tuesday of each month. The Rector's chief of staff reiterated to representatives of the STU and health workers that the University has every interest in preserving dialogue and building the best possible working conditions together with employees.
Bustorff also stated that Unicamp, despite the serious financial difficulties it has been facing, has made efforts to overcome some deficiencies, such as hiring employees for health units. “We have reorganized the workforce as much as possible. Between today and tomorrow, for example, we will approve the hiring of another 30 professionals, including nurses and nursing technicians,” he said.
The chief of staff took the opportunity to invite unionists and workers to join forces with Unicamp, in search of alternatives to overcome the problem of underfunding in the University's health sector. Bustorff recalled that the institution needs new resources to cover expenditure on this sector, which is responsible for serving a population of more than six million people. Unionists and employees agreed to work together to demand a solution from the State Department of Health to the problem of underfunding.
