LAB calls a new day of strike this Friday in the residences of Gipuzkoa

The LAB union has convened this next Friday a new strike day in residences for the elderly in Gipuzkoa, as it is considered “essential” to find one “emergency” solution in view of the “unsustainable” situation experienced by the workers of these centers.

LAB has insisted that “excessive” workloads “make it impossible” for residents “receive quality care service they need and deserve. “

In addition, he has pointed out that lack of a collective agreement Territorial level has generated “great differences in working conditions between different centers and huge wage gaps between women workers who provide a public service financed with public money.”

Along these lines, from the union central they have shown their “solidarity” with the workers of the residences of Bizkaia that this past Tuesday carried out a day of strike and have stressed that “this situation is not a problem of the Txara I residence, nor residences for the elderly in Gipuzkoa, nor those in Bizkaia, but rather the structural consequence of the commercialization of care tasks, job insecurity and the devaluation of the work of working women “.

In this way, he has denounced that “they have turned care into a business“and the private companies that manage public services financed with public money” are obtaining enormous economic benefits at the cost of caring for our elders and deepening the exploitation of working women. “

It will be the third day of unemployment in less than two months, as it does not receive a positive response from the Provincial Council. “This is not a simple labor dispute between the workers and the employer, but a social issue that affects the entire society of Gipuzkoa“He has insisted and they have stressed that, until they sit down with the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the Collective negotiation “This is not going to stop.”