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We have gathered here for
a very specific reason,

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because the Helios Group
has come up with

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the idea to transfer
the bed preparation

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to nursing staff.

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That is something
that is not possible.

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And that we
will not accept.

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We are protesting
against this today.

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And what must be said
right at the beginning,

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that management tried to make
this protest more difficult by saying

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we have to get off the hospital
grounds, which we do,

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but at the same time shortly before
the action begins people were told

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that they were not allowed to leave
the hospital grounds in their work clothes.

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Normally they don't stop people
from leaving in scrubs

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because in that café over there,
the people in scrubs get a coffee

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and that is
not penalised.

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So as I said, the
Group has decided

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to transfer bed preparation
to the ward teams.

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In 2023, the transport service and
catering have been dissolved.

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Officially because they said
they wanted to qualify people,

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In fact, they were told:
Do an apprenticeship or you're gone!

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And in the end
they were gone.

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They were
dismissed!

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In 2023 we were told, that
more staff would be recruited,

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but where is
this staff?

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The bottom line is that all
conceivable activities,

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are declared as part of care in order
to be able to get them refinanced.

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And that is, to put it mildly,
not the point of the matter.

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That is the complete
opposite of it.

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On the one hand the low-
wage sector is abolished,

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and we get the tasks
of the people who then

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are simply
coldly dismissed.

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It is simply a stone-cold saving
on the backs of all of us

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and ultimately on the
backs of the patients.

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Therefore transfer of bed
cleaning must be stopped!

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Stop it now!

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My name is
Matthias Gramlich

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and have been working here
as a nurse for a very long time .

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Currently on the cardiological
monitoring ward.

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We did the
action today,

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because the Helios Group has
decided

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to transfer bed cleaning
to the wards.

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The colleagues who previously
stripped the beds,

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disinfected the beds
and covered them again,

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won't do this anymore by the end
of the year throughout the Group.

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And the order for the clinics was
that they have to implement this

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by the end of the year.

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When it was clear
for management that

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the state would reimburse
wages of the nursing staff

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working at the bedside
at the end of the year,

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they tried to allocate
other occupational groups

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on the care staff rota,
even if they did in fact

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not provide bedside care,

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as a normal carer
does on the ward.

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And this includes, for example
the ward secretaries,

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who only do administrative
activities.

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They tried it for a while,
also in physiotherapy,

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- not anymore -,

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who work with patients
but don't perform nursing activity

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and who are
not carers either.

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That's a completely different
different professional group.

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And then that was extended
to the patient transport service,

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who really only
push the beds

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and otherwise do
have patient contact,

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but do not perform
careing activities.

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And that also applies to those who
distribute the food, i.e. the catering.

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And then came
the announcement,

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that from 2025 on, i.e. this year,
everyone who works at the bedside,

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must have
a qualification,

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at least a 1-year
training as a care assistant.

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And that was the reason
to say, we're doing

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a 'qualification offensive',
that's what they called it,

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and will qualify
them all.

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That sounds great at first, and nobody
has anything against qualification

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and nobody has anything
against that people,

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who used worked in an outsourced
company in the low-wage sector

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are taken back in-house
where standard wages are paid.

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But the whole thing was a fake,
because the colleagues,

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due to old age
or language barriers,

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were simply unable to retrain.
Some also for social reasons.

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Because if you are a single
parent, then you might not be

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in a position to do
an apprenticeship.

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Or in the case of catering,
that were only 75% jobs,

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so you would've had
to go full-time, etc.

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And that was simply
not taken into account.

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At least here at
this hospital.

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And then they said:

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Do the training, because your
department will not be there anymore

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and then you're gone. And
that was conveyed very coldly,

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with the effect, that the
willingness was not there.

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And then the people were just
dismissed for operational reasons.

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In catering just
under 50 people

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And in the transport service,
where people are younger,

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some have started
their training.

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But even there the
majority didn't stay.

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That was probably
around 13, 14 people.

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And of those, five or six
started and completed their training.

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We have been
protesting for years

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that we have a staff shortage here,
that we are overstretched,

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that we have too much work
for too few hands

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and instead of
trying to improve it

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the complete opposite happens:
they simply keep adding new activities

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that are imposed on
us as ward staff.

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But the austerity measures
not only affect

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the care itself,

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but all
occupational groups.

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Doctors positions
were cut.

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In many cases you can't save
on personnel anymore,

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That is why they save
on equipment next.

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There is a so-called
equipment exchange

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for the devices you need
from perfusors to suction devices etc,

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where you then have to look for it,
when you need something.

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They save on
laundry, on food,

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and also the organisation
is really terrible,

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that you have to run
to look for little things,

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which should
be self-evident.

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For example there won't be
any coffee cream for a month.

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You'll only realise that when you
you have to distribute it...

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Savings are being made
on work materials,

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like laundry or
something like that.

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You constantly have
to search for stuff.

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When you order stuff
it doesn't get delivered.

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There is an overall
medication shortage.

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Then it simply won't be delivered
and then you have to

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go to other wards to get
yourself antibiotic XYZ,

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because it has not
been delivered.

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These are all things that
mean additional effort

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and purely at the
organisational level,

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as far as the management
structures are concerned,

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nothing is done,

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so that work processes
function,

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which is actually
their job.

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But in reality it looks like this,
that we as employees

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on the wards
among ourselves,

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we show solidarity and say: "Okay,
we're going to do this and this

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do you have this?" - Through
our informal organisation

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out of necessity

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we keep the clinics running and not because
management does it from above.

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And if you right at
the start say,

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that you have too few staff
and that you don't even know

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how you are supposed
to do your work.

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We have written
in the call today

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that every care service is
like a race against time!

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That's what it is.

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And if you are in
such a situation,

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where also your normal
rota no longer applies,

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where you are constantly
called at home:

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"Can you please do the
day after tomorrow, etc."

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So you can already see that
organisationally the hospital

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doesn't work on the basis,
and then to say:

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"You now do two extra tasks
from people who,

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previously only did that,
on top of your normal work."

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So that's just an absolute affront
and a complete ignoring

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of the facts,
which for us as employees

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are predominant
on those wards.

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And that doesn't
matter in the end,

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because they just say:
"You do it, that's it."

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And that leads
in turn,

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that people don't
continue working here.

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In a metropolitan
area like Munich

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you get a job at any
time within a week

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where you don't
have to do that.

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Networking amongst affected staff
has to start now,

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we will try to get together,
but it

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is not that easy,

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because often the initiative doesn't
come from the workers themselves,

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but rather from the
representative bodies

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and in many cases via the
works councils.

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But contact will have
to be established,

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above all with Erfurt,
who already tried to resist

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in a different way
with a petition, but with 800

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signatures, - that's a
good number,

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to show as well:

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The problem
is everywhere.

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There were actions
at various clinics.

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In Pforzheim it
fell on a strike day,

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when that was very
harshly discussed.

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but there were also
actions in Attendorn,

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also something like today, in
the form of an active lunch break

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or petitions.

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Something like that must be
be taken back.

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Such a thing is unacceptable,
nobody understands

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that people who are already
stressed without end,

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that they should now
do something on top of that,

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which has nothing to do
with their original activity.

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It's not that we're too
fancy for anything,

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not even for
distributing food,

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but in fact there are simply too
few people there and that's why:

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Something like that has to be
taken back as a first step.

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And the second is simply that
enough people are employed here

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in all occupational
groups,

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that people can take
their break regularly.

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To be able to go to
the loo for example.

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So it is about
the most basic things,

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if something was done, then
we would be happy.

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And on a long-term

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we have to say that clinics
which run as private companies,

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simply do not fulfil their
purpose for society.