Gipuzkoa's nursing homes are today on strike and unemployment to protest the "blockade" of negotiations
Workers in nursing homes in Gipuzkoa, in a stock image. Photo: EFE
The ELA and LAB unions have today called for strikes and stops in the nursing homes of Gipuzkoato denounce the "deadlock" in the negotiation of the agreement and to demand an improvement in the working conditions of the nearly 5,000 workers in the sector, almost all women.
The majorityunion in the sector, ELA, has called six strike days today, tomorrow and the day after, and on 9, 10 and 11 July. LAB, for its part, has called for stops today (09:30-13: 30) and on 9 and 10 July (07:30-08: 30 and 13:30-14: 30) and 11 (09:00-13: 00).
In addition, each union will demonstrate separately at 11:00 in Donostia-San Sebastián. The ELA union will meet at the headquarters of the Adegi employers and LAB at the Donostia City Council.
The negotiation of the sectoral agreement on nursing homes and day centres in Gipuzkoa began in January. The trade unions report that after four meetings the employers have not even "responded" to the demands and do not want to address the main problems facing the sector.
According toELA, 40% of workers have unwanted partial contracts, in recent years direct care hours have "fallen" and this has led to a "huge" increase in workloads and a "deterioration" in workers' health and services in general.
ELA calls for a working agreement that places the care system at the centre and improves the working conditions of caregivers. It also calls for consensual psychosocial risk plans, resources for the Euskaldunization of the service and progress in the ecosocial transition through the incorporation of local products into meals.
The LAB union is calling for the equalization of working conditions, that is, for workers in nursing homes to have the same working conditions as civil servants.
In addition, LAB has called for a reduction in ratios and, in this regard, has repeatedly questioned the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa to change ratios, but has complained that the Council and employers have ignored it.
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