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Management of Klinikum Wahrendorff GmbH
Mr. Wilkening
E-mail:  dr.wilkening@wahrendorff.de 
Fax: 00495132/902266 
Mr. Jeske
E-mail: jeske@wahrendorff.de 
Fax: 00495132/902200 

Protest appeal to the management of the Hospital Wahrendorff GmbH 

Dear Mr Wilkening, dear Mr Jeske, 

hereby we protest against the behaviour of the management, which it showed in the treatment of members of ver.di in your workers council in Klinikum Wahrendorff GmbH. 

We see that you don't wish to have organized unions and union activities in the hospital. This obviously explains your actions against uncomfortable members of the workers council. 

We therefore ask you to stop your activities referring to this, to take back the dismissals and to accept the rights of the workers as well as the use of union rights in the hospital. 
We demand you, to give the workers council access to all the information, which it - authorized by law - needs to examine and judge the company's situation. 

We also expect you to take position to the numbers put forward concerning the supposed and actual number of employees. If there should be any differences, then meet your obligations and provide the necessary workplaces. Patients and workers have a right for this. 

In solidarity with the hospital workers,

(SEM doplň Tvoje meno a adresu alebo meno a adresu Tvojej lokálnej skupiny/ORGANIZÁCIE)

Protestná výzva manažmentu Nemocnice Wahrendorff GmbH:

Vážený pán Wilkening, vážený pán Jeske,

týmto spôsobom protestujeme proti správaniu manažmentu voči členom ver.di vo výbore zamestnancov v nemocnici Wahrendorff GmbH.

Vidíme, že si neprajete organizované odbory a odborárske aktivity v nemocnici. To zrejme vysvetľuje Vaše akcie proti nepohodlným členom výboru.

Práve preto Vás žiadame, aby ste zastavili tieto svoje aktivity, znovuzamestnali prepustených a uznali odborové práva pracovníkov v nemocnici. 
Žiadame, aby ste dodali výboru zamestnancov všetky informácie, ktoré sú  – podľa zákona – potrebné pre preskúmanie a posúdenie situácie v podniku.

Taktiež očakávame, že vyjasníte čísla, ktoré udávajú predpokladaný a aktuálny počet zamestnancov. Ak by mali vzniknúť nejaké rozdiely, tak splníte svoj záväzok a poskytnete nevyhnutné pracovné pozície. Pacienti a pracovníci na to majú právo.

V solidarite s pracovníkmi nemocnice,

Not the real thing: protest against the management of hospital in Hannover 

On March 14th, about 20 members of various unions - ver.di (union of 
public and private services), DGB-Ortskartell Lehrte (a local group of 
German Trade Union Organization) and Freie ArbeiterInnen Union Hannover 
(FAU) - protested in Hannover's city against the behaviour of the 
management of Klinikum Wahrendorff GmbH. 

The hospital in Sehnde-Ilten (near Hannover) is one of the biggest 
private psychiatric hospitals in Europe. The care for 277 patients in an 
emergency area and 680 mentally ill inhabitants in a housing area is 
provided by 785 employees. For years the management is trying to cut 
down the rights of the employees, attacks organizing efforts being made 
by unionists and also tries to get combative union representatives out 
of the company by all means. Since 1994 official representatives are 
regularly facing attempts to fire them. 
Now, the workers representation council, elected one year ago, has to 
deal with 10 proceedings before labor court of justice to obtain 
immediate dismissals of four of them and also three requests of 
expulsion from the workers council. These people are members of the 
ver.di-list, a union which participates in representative elections. 
The organization of the employees by the unions is undesired. Some 
rather reserved attempts made by ver.di-functionaries led to nothing. 
There are efforts being made to activate the large number of 
ver.di-members in the company by the few ver.di-unionists, who want to 
fight back, but sadly not much developed. The atmosphere at the 
workplace is poisoned with fear. Discontent is big, but many employees 
don't dare to fight against their working conditions and the payments. 
Most of them delegate their own responsibility to the representatives in 
the workers council. 

The protest took place in front of the hotel Luisenhof in Hannover, 
where the management had invited for the 3rd annual general meeting. The 
unionists and syndicalists being present there, asked the management of 
the hospital to stop immediately its attacks against union 
representatives and to accept that employees make use of the existing 
union rights. 
Beside this the management shall give a profound statement concerning 
the workers council's report about "the present economic situation of 
the hospital Wahrendorff GmbH 2006". The reply to this report fell due 
more than eight months ago. 
By now the management even failed to give a balance for 2005. 

Beside some hospital employees also the leader of the FDP (Liberal 
Party) in Niedersachsen and at the same time leader of the FDP's 
parliamentary group, Mr Phillip Rössler, was invited to hold a speech. 
Around 75 guests, including leaders of emergency and housing units as 
well as principal doctors, followed the invitation to this meeting. 

Nandor Pouget