Nurses strike -- over: Health ministry and the unions will conduct mediation proceedings

The Labor Court ordered the nurses' union and representatives of the Ministry of Finance to initiate mediation proceedings, during which the nurses will be able to exercise their right to take sanctions and the Health Ministry will be able to cut their celeries.

At the Regional Labor Court in Tel Aviv, the state's requested to issue an order instructing the nurses to stop their strike continued. Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar-Simantov proposed a timeout for the strike and the parties 'commitment to enter into intensive negotiations with the nurses' demands. The representative of the nurses, Ilana Cohen, described the state of the hospitals and the heavy burden that the nurses had to deal with. The judge criticized the state for failing to appear at night because the absence of state representatives caused the strike to continue. 

On Tuesday night, the state filed a motion to issue an injunction against the nurses' strike, but no date and time has yet been set for the hearing in the labor court. Attempts to hold talks between the head of the Nurses' Union, Ilana Cohen, and Finance Ministry officials failed last night, and after a nocturnal debate is held, the strike will continue today.
Operating rooms will continue to operate in emergency settings, and all services will be provided in a limited format. In addition, intensive care units will work for a limited Saudi team. In neonatal, mammalian, maternity, dialysis, oncology, fertility units, a limited nursing staff will work. Geriatric and psychiatric hospitals will operate in a limited format. In all the hospitals, an emergency nursing staff will be set up, and an exception committee will be established in all the hospitals. The audience will have to go to the health offices for blood samples.
The strike began yesterday morning, after the negotiations with the Finance and Health ministries broke down yesterday, with the strikers protesting the lack of standards - 145 unmanned facilities, which constitute about 15% of hospital standards. Patient care, and, of course, the latest decree - a threat to cut their wages due to the sanctions.
The nurses require the Ministry of Health and Finance to match the department's license with the actual number of patients hospitalized, remove the illegal beds from the departments and corridors, adjust the standards in community hospitals and public health to the collective agreements and the number of patients.
In addition, the Histadrut requires the allocation of standards, resources, personnel and wages that are appropriate to the tasks, procedures and measures that have been added to the nurses 'work in recent years at the expense of the patient and the cessation and re-evaluation of the nurses' work, while allocating resources and specific standards for its implementation.