ELA and LAB explain that on 15 May they last sat with the employers at the negotiating table, but the trade union proposal has not yet responded. “This shows us its precarious negotiating attitude,” the unions pointed out and rejected the employers’ “blockade”.

Four years of struggle

Trade unions have stressed that workers in the sector have been fighting for their own employment agreement for over four years. Wage increases and shorter working hours are the main demands because they are the main problems: “With more and more evils for work, with very long annual days, and it becomes increasingly difficult to reach the end of the month, that is, they live to work and work to survive.”

Residence and care are generally feminized and precarious sectors, “where these women work to maintain the lives of the elderly”, and the unions have stressed the need to “thank and value” these works.

Mobilisations in favour of the Convention

The trade unions call for the employers to be negotiated and also call on the Member of the Social Policy of Álava, Emilio Sola, to promote the agreement. “Care must be public and not business.”

Trade unions have called for mobilisation and fight for the agreement “to the extent that excessive minimum services allow it”. On Tuesday, 23 May in the morning the workers held a demonstration, organised a rally and a demonstration for Wednesday and on Friday morning they will make motorhomes.