They protest against the economies imposed on them by the government as part of the new social security budget.
Le Monde with AFP
The last chance meeting turned short. Received Monday, November 7 at the Headquarters of Maladie, representatives of liberal biologists “came up against a wall,” said their four unions, in a declaration sent to the France-Presse agency (AFP). Engaged for more than a month in an showdown with the government, which wants to impose them decreases in prices, they called on the “renewable strike” from November 14.
Within the framework of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), analysis laboratories are summoned to revise the prices of their current exams (excluding COVVI-19 screening tests). The government already planned to carry out for this measure 250 million euros in savings in 2023. But it is “a new proposal for a more salty planer that is now imposed on us”, denounce the union representatives: 280 million in 2023 , then 322 million per year until 2026.
“No going back”, according to Olivier Véran
To oppose “austerity madness”, analysis laboratories have already ceased to transmit COVVI-19 screening test data since October 28, undermining the follow-up of the epidemic. They are now calling for “the reappearing entry into strike from all medical biology laboratories as of Monday, November 14”. And hope to be followed by the major private networks, members like them of the Alliance of Medical Biology (Biogroup, Cerba, Eurofins, Inovie, Synlab).
Government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Sunday that there would be “no going back” on the security budget and that there was “no need to revise this position “.