Domestic and care workers come together to demand their rights in Pamplona

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In the capital of Navarra, a meeting convened by the trade union LAB, SOS Racismo Navarra and associations of domestic workers has taken place.

A group of home and care workers gathered this Saturday at Paseo Sarasate in Pamplona to defend their labor rights and specifically demand that the abolition of the special social security system for this group.

At the meeting called by the union LABORATORY SOS Racism Navarra Yes associations of domestic workersa banner with the slogan “All rights for domestic and care workers” has been carried.

The participants also wore plastic aprons with slogans such as “Working health now”, “Unemployment benefit now”, “Domestic workers in struggle” or “No to discrimination”.

A spokeswoman for the organizers read out a statement in which this group, on the occasion of the 30 March celebration of the International Day of Domestic and Care Workersdenounces “the discriminatory situation that we workers in this sector experience, as employees but also as people”.

In 2012, he points to the so-called Special arrangement for domestic workersthat “far from fully including us in the general regime and guaranteeing decent working conditions, has dragged down a situation of absolute discrimination and violation. We discriminate as workers.

Domestic workers and carers emphasize that they are not entitled to unemployment, they suffer from “all kinds of violence”, they work “infinite days”, they are insecure and they are offered “worse working conditions because they are in an irregular situation or they are blackmailed” us to get papers”.

“We are tired of waiting, we are tired of the false promises, we are tired of hearing about equality that we live in a society with the same rights for all people,” the statement said.

That’s why they demand that public institutions and governments: abolition of the special regime of domestic workers and urgent ratification of ILO Convention 189and the right to unemployment benefits

Also the inclusion in the Workplace Risk Prevention Actand the abolition of the Aliens Act and extraordinary and unconditional regularization for all people in an irregular situation.

These demands “are clear and strong, and we are going to fulfill them no matter what. We will not be silent for a minute. We do not want to victimize ourselves, because domestic and care workers are political subjects. We do not want anything to be given to us, nor do we ask we order a measure of charity”, say these workers.

“What we are asking for is social justice. This struggle has only just begun. That is why we are calling on all our compañeras, workers, compañeras from other feminised sectors, the feminist movement, the anti-racist movement and society in general to join to this fight,” they conclude.


Source: EITB

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