Overview
- Verdi has called a two-day warning strike for Thursday and Friday, October 15–16, covering early, late and night shifts at Charité’s three campuses: Virchow-Klinikum, Charité Mitte and Benjamin Franklin.
- The union says the strike aims to force the preservation and expansion of the Entlastungstarifvertrag’s protections, including binding staffing levels and a burden‑relief that compensates or relieves staff who work in understaffed shifts.
- Charité ended the Entlastungstarifvertrag on August 31 and the two sides have made limited progress on station staffing while remaining deadlocked over the burden‑relief mechanism and protections for service staff and nursing assistants.
- The Landesarbeitsgericht Berlin‑Brandenburg has confirmed Charité’s requested emergency staffing plans for strikes, a decision ver.di has appealed and which narrows which employees must remain on duty during industrial action.
- Charité says medically necessary care in emergency rooms, intensive care, urgent operations, delivery wards and oncology will be maintained; the dispute affects about 7,000 nursing staff and could shape staffing, patient capacity and working conditions at the hospital.