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The failure of the cleaning workers' strike
Itziar Bardaji Goikoetxea 2021eko apirilaren 29a

Two weeks ago the cleaners called the strike in Navarra. This strike was coming with force. Today, in the hands of the struggle of women, society is better understood than the work of cleaning workers, in general, is fundamental. The following works are supported:

"Union power is absolutely limited, neutralised and the working class has not yet been able to build new fighting instruments"

in the framework of paid work and in the home, which are still feminized and increasingly racist, and which is basically why they are paid badly. This era of hyperdisinfection reinforces all of this and we can connect it with the lack of recognition if we are told that we forget the cleaners since the applause from the balconies began and until today. It was a good time, social perception and working conditions do not match, and the window between the two offers a good option. It is a symbolic challenge to carry out a social advance beyond the demands of the workers.

It has happened again. Today, the power of the trade unions is totally limited, neutralised and the working class has not yet been able to create new instruments for fighting. The inertia of remaining unchanged is typical of the institution and currently has a very high, worrying static capacity. We need creativity.