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“We Cannot Sit Down to Negotiate With Cheaters,” Doctor Says

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Paraguay’s government proposed a merit-based salary adjustment for public-sector doctors, but the offer fell below their expectations.
  • The National Medical Union held an assembly in Asunción to consider whether to call another strike after last week’s stoppage.

Paraguay’s public-sector doctors gathered in Asunción on Sept. 3 to assess the government’s proposed salary adjustment and consider whether to call another strike.

The government offered a raise through a “meritocratic system,” but doctors said the proposal fell below their expectations. The assembly came only hours before the union was due to decide its next steps, following a strike the previous week.

A doctor denounced the proposal with the words, “We cannot sit down to negotiate with cheaters.”

We cannot sit down to negotiate with cheaters.

· Doctor, unnamedThe doctor criticized the government’s proposed merit-based salary adjustment during the labor dispute.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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