“Absenteeism laborala da, gaur egun, enpresa horiek gurean bearatu behar duten lacras nagusi bat.” These are the words of the employer extracted from a guide for the management of absenteeism in companies. They have not said anything about the new right to work, which has been one of the main topics for discussion in recent days. It's very significant.
Perhaps they need time to look at the issue. Or it may be that this law is not necessary to hinder everyone, because they know that it is in their hands to make formal recognition a real right in the world of work. That is their capacity under labour law and the unconditional political protection of governments. They had the opportunity to change this possibility, but they did not do so in reform.
The sexual division of labor, the denial of the working condition to the care performed at home, the non-recognition of real value to those who are performed in the market, the impossibility of analyzing the right to occupational health in function of feminized professions and women… are structural rules. Real unwritten rules, because capital is not prepared to bear the cost of economic and labour rights that the modification of all this would entail for women.
The minister of the Government of Spain, Irene Montero, stated that “the work is finished dragging on the pain of menstruation”. I find it difficult to think that the caregiver who goes to work with back pain, or the cleaner who goes to work loaded with pills to relieve the pains that the wristband produces for his profession, may believe that it will be.
1958an, emakume baserritarrek Donostiako Erdialdea hartu zuten, esnea saltzea galarazi zitzaiela salatu, eta baserritarren eskubideak aldarrikatzeko. Administrazioak esnearen esklusibotasuna Gurelesa enpresari eman zion, eta baserritarrek Bretxan saltzeari utzi behar izan... [+]
Equality, like pregnancy, exists or does not exist. When there is no equality, there is a difference, that is what you can measure and value. Perhaps the consequences of equality may be unfair to some, but this would place the debate on the consequences, not at all on equality... [+]
Errenteria (Gipuzkoa), 1892. In the caves of Aizpitarte the first archaeological excavations of Gipuzkoa were carried out, at the hand of the group led by Count Lersundi. Eleven years later, in 1903, the king of Spain, Alfonso XIII, visited the site and with this excuse... [+]
I don't know if you've noticed, but lately, reactionary and conservative messages are spreading across social media. One of them is the trend of the tradwife. That word is the abbreviation of the traditional concept of wifi, that is, the traditional wife. This movement proposes to... [+]
Although we still do not analyse in depth the collective impact of the pandemic, it is no exaggeration to say that it has left us the demands we have made “our”. One of them is that we must focus care once and for all.
The issue of care is increasingly central in Euskal... [+]