“Am I not worth more?”

Nurse Shipe Krasniqi, who works at BB in Kristianstad, received a 1.8 percent salary increase. She started looking for other jobs the day after the salary negotiation.
– I have always been against this thing of having to change jobs to raise your salary, but that is the only way.

This year’s benchmark for salary negotiations was 4.1 percent. Despite that, nurses in many places receive two percent, and in some cases less.

Shipe Krasniqi has worked 22 years in healthcare and two years as a trained nurse. She says that there are already too few staff at BB in Kristianstad, but despite that, there was no talk of negotiating the salary.

– I have not had any so-called salary talks where you have the opportunity to discuss the salary, but I was told the amount I had received.

Several of Shipe Krasniqi’s colleagues have switched to staffing companies. She herself applied for a job in the region and raised her salary that way.

“Self-harming behavior for the regions”

Janí Stjernström, who is the vice-chairman of the Health Care Association, says that she understands that people get angry and choose to stop with a wage trend that goes backwards.

– You build in a huge problem by disqualifying these groups, it is self-harming behavior for those regions that already have difficulty coping with the care queues, she says.

According to Janí Stjernström, it is ultimately the patients who end up in a pinch when staff choose to quit due to salary trends.

– Many of us in healthcare are terribly worried about the development of healthcare that is taking place. We are on a downward slope that the employer could have stopped by taking responsibility for wage formation, she says.