Doctors to go on strike at university hospitals
Thousands of German doctors at university hospitals across the country are set to go on strike as part of a dispute over wages and working hours. Doctors at 23 German university hospitals are set to walk out on Tuesday German doctors at 23 state-owned university hospitals are expected to walk out on Tuesday after hospital managers and union leaders failed to reach an agreement in collective bargaining talks. Several thousand doctors are expected to rally in the northern German city of Hanover to demand wage increases and restrictions on rotating shifts, which entail irregular working hours. The Marburger Bund trade union, which represents the doctors, is demanding a 12.5% pay increase as well as higher bonuses for regular night, weekend and on public holiday shifts for the more than 20,000 doctors at the university hospitals, which are financed by Germany's 16 federal states. Union leader Andreas Botzlar told the dpa news agency that ...