Doctors on Strike — The Crisis in German Health Care Delivery

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In mid-March 2006, physicians at Germany's university clinics went on strike, protesting an increase in the hours of the official workweek that came without a corresponding increase in pay. The physicians' union, the Marburger Bund, argued that neither the old official workweek of 38.5 hours, nor the new one of 40 or 42 hours, reflected the reality known by most doctors in Germany, where 80-hour weeks are common and physicians often put in many additional, uncompensated hours. About 15,000 of the 20,000 physicians based at university hospitals joined in this unprecedented strike.After 3 months of collective action and negotiation, . . .

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