This information was communicated this Saturday, April 11 in a joint press release from the Inter-University Committee of Medical Students (CIUM), the Office of Student Administrators (BEA), the Representative Organization of Students (ORE) and the Federation of Francophone Students (FEF).
Around 300 students from the medical faculties of ULB and UMons are on call every month in the three HUB establishments (the Jules Bordet Institute, the Erasme hospital and the Queen Fabiola children’s university hospital).
Until now, these guards were subject to a fee covering the mobility costs to get there. But since March, these guards have no longer been paid. “Requiring students to provide such a volume of on-call duty – for free – constitutes, in the eyes of the signatory organizations, an unacceptable organizational injustice, blatant contempt, and profound disrespect for the work of these future doctors.“, we can read in the press release.
Un préavis de grève
The student organizations therefore decided to file a strike notice. A general meeting will be held on Monday April 13″in order to officially vote on the positions of the student movement and plan the modalities of concerted action“.
However, student organizations remain “demanding a constructive, responsible and respectful dialogue about their work which remains essential in a chain of collaborations between different caregivers“.
Although requests for meetings were sent to the HUB and ULB management, “no contact has been established“, underline the associations in their joint press release.
