The petition was created by citizen Danuzia de Oliveira to pressure senators for the approval of a salary floor and a 30-hour limit for nursing and nursing technician jobs. According to the author, nursing has been fighting for 20 years for the right to a maximum workload and a decent and dignified salary floor.
The demand stems from the fact that many professionals are subjected to excessive working hours and are seen by health professionals as inhumane, with salaries that are not in line with the daily reality of saving lives . The author also reinforces that nurses and nurses attended college with theoretical and practical classes for 5 years and nursing technicians took two-year courses with an intense workload of practices and theories.
During the pandemic, the need for these professionals made reality even more complex. In several countries, such as Italy, they were daily honored with palms from the windows during the most critical period of the pandemic while Brazil does not even have a salary floor established, making the reality very different financially, although similar in daily work.
The online petition has more than 320,000 signatures and the manifestations in favor of the projects being processed in the House and Senate (PL 2564/2020 / PL 5640/2020 / PL 2997/2020 / PL 459/2015) add up to more than 770 thousand supporters. , in one of the rare cases where demonstrations on official channels outnumber demonstrations on unofficial channels .
Access the petition here .
