According to the union, the current management model “treats workers badly, making their working conditions more precarious, and residents, because quality care is not provided.” Therefore, he announces that they will continue with the mobilizations.
The workers of the Biscay residences have demonstrated today in Bilbao, called by the union LABORATORY and they have announced that in May (from the 15th to the 20th) they will declare another 6 days of strike. They have denounced that “the current model mistreats” both the workers and the users.
The LAB union confirms that “the privatization of the service imposed by the Diputación mistreats the workers, making their working conditions more precarious, and also the residents, as quality care is not provided.”
The workers have addressed Bizkaia’s social action deputy, Sergio Murillo, and the companies, stating that they are “tired of doing business with the dignity of the elderly”. They have stressed that they will continue to fight until they realize their reality claimsunder which match your salary those of public workers, substitutions of casualties from day one and real measures on the health at work.
Likewise, the LAB union denounces that the current relationship “is inhumane and it presupposes mistreatment of residents and employees”. measures that, in your opinion, would ease the situation: 2 informal caregivers per 15 residents at night, one informal caregiver per 4 residents during the day, 24-hour nursing and one nurse per 16 residents.
The employees of the retirement homes in Bizkaia have announced that they will continue the mobilizations until the situation is resolved.
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