The LAB union has carried out an analysis of the wage gap, and has called mobilizations for February 22 in Bilbao and Pamplona.
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The LAB union has denounced that the wage gap in jobs of the same category can reach 90% and men earn almost twice as much as women.
LAB has presented its analysis of the gender pay gap at a press conference in San Sebastián on the occasion of the International Day against the Pay Gap. Specifically, it has made a comparison between different agreements to analyze the gap, studying jobs in the same category, some masculinized and others feminized: construction, metallurgy and street cleaning (masculinized sectors) and food trade, nursing homes and room cleaners (feminized). The data shows that wages in masculinized sectors they can be 90% higher to those of the feminized.
LAB’s feminist secretary, Maddi Isasi, has given a specific example: “the construction warehouse laborer in Gipuzkoa earns 90, 30% more than the worker in nursing homes of the same category. Therefore, in two similar jobs, the man has almost twice the salary of the woman*”.
In addition, the men from the Basque Country They charge an average of 6,200 euros more (23%) than women.
Isasi adds that this does not mean that the salaries of the masculinized sectors are very high, but that the salaries of the feminized sectors are very low. To all this we must add that in the group of workers who do not regulate their working conditions through a labor agreement, 3 out of 4 are women.
Garbine Aranburu, coordinator of LAB, has stressed that “the jobs that women do are devalued, they are given less value”. Aranburu advocates “ending the sexual division of labor” and recognizing, redistributing and revaluing all jobs. She also calls for correcting the patriarchal debt owed to women and ending the pension gap.
In addition, LAB has announced mobilizations on February 22 in Bilbao (11:00 am, from the Basque Government to the Employers) and Pamplona (11:30 am in front of Parliament).
Source: Eitb
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