This is the third day of unemployment in less than two months. The LAB union denounces the “excessive” workloads that “make it impossible” for residents to receive the quality care service they need and deserve.
The labor dispute in the residences of Gipuzkoa continues unresolved and the LAB union has called for today a new day of strike, since it considers that it is “essential” to find one “emergency” solution in view of the “unsustainable” situation experienced by the workers of these centers.
This is the third day of unemployment in less than two months, as it did 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“They insist from LAB. Union sources add that they will not stop until they sit down with the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council and the Collective negotiation.
At 09:30 hours, LAB has concentrated in San Sebastián, in front of the Txara II center in Intxaurrondo to request a meeting with the Deputy of Social Policies Maite Peña. At 11:00 am, they will hold a concentration in front of the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council.
According to LAB, “excessive” workloads “make it impossible” for residents “receive quality care service they need and deserve. “
Besides, the lack of a collective agreement Territorial situation generates “great differences in working conditions between different centers and huge wage gaps between 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 commodification of care tasks, job insecurity and the devaluation of the work of working women “.
In this way, they have 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. “
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