Overview
- The union began a two-day enforcement strike on Thursday, November 12, calling staff at all three Charité campuses to stop work through the end of the night shift on Saturday, November 14.
- Verdi says more than 98 percent of members backed the strike in a ballot and has ordered occupied strike rooms from 6:00 each day with a planned 11:00 rally at the Charité board building.
- Charité says it has prepared intensively, will keep emergency services running, and expects some planned treatments and operations to be postponed or canceled with patients notified individually.
- The two sides disagree on costs and staffing: Charité reports it hired about 1,100 nurses in five years and says Verdi's current demands would mean up to 300 more hires and more than €20 million in extra annual costs.
- The strike is an Erzwingungsstreik meant to pressure management into talks and could deepen friction over hospital funding and staffing rules while mainly affecting elective care in the short term.