The union demands a public, universal, free, high-quality and co-responsible healthcare system.
Of the 434 existing homes in Hego Euskal Herria, only 40 (9.2%) are publicly managed, according to a report on care prepared by the ELA union before the elections. feminist strike summoned before November 30.
Furthermore, the document, presented by the ELA General Secretary, shows Mitxel Lakuntxa, It shows that healthcare is a women’s business and that they have become a privately owned company.
Lakuntza has emphasized that “the healthcare model that the institutions have chosen does not recognize the right to care“, leaves the majority of dependent people without care and provides private companies with services at the expense of precarious working conditions for thousands of women in the Basque Country, many of whom are migrants.”
Faced with this reality, the Secretary General has emphasized the importance of the trade union struggle. “The strikes in the nursing home and home care sectors, some of which lasted more than a year of strikes, have helped highlight the problems of this model and improved working conditions.”
For this reason, Lakuntza hopes that the November 30 general strike will serve to challenge the institutions, “because we are confronted with a political issue of the first order,” and so that “care is recognized as a right to end to a privatized model. that does business with services and precarious work that mainly targets women.
For this reason, ELA defends a model co-responsible, public, universal, free and quality.
Source: EITB
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