The CCOO union presented this Wednesday a hundred proposals to accelerate the negotiation of a Care Law capable of legally defining what caring means, who cares, and transforming the care model from a rights-based approach. of the dependents.
The union says it is “about a battery of proposals for concrete measures” to structure a comprehensive policy, “instead of the current fragmented incorporation of services and rights without financial support,” they have defended.
CCOO has announced that, immediately, it will transfer the report with 106 measures to the ministries involved with the proposal to schedule a transversal negotiation table with the aim of fixing the current model of care, which in his opinion shows “fissures”, “unfair effects” and is “insufficient”.
In the presentation, the general secretary of CC OO, Unai Sordohas considered that care is the last leg of the welfare state, after health and education, which remains to be developed. “Care is a public matterneither private nor only concerning women,” he defended, while announcing that the union will be “belligerent” to demand the necessary “budgetary allocation” for an agreement because if things remain “halfway or in borage waters”.
“Care cannot depend on the zip code in which we livehence a program for a comprehensive state pact”, defended the confederal secretary of CCOO Women, Carolina Vidal.
According to CC OO calculations, taking the ILO database as a database, they have estimated that in Spain, with an additional gross annual investment of 5.08% of GDP in care and attention policies1.6 million jobs could be created: 300 thousand in early childhood and about 1.3 million in long-term care).
The union considers that the feminization of care contributes to labor inequality in Spain, given that in Spain 9 out of 10 people who are forced to work part-time for “care reasons” are women; and 8 out of 10 of those who interrupt their professional careers for leaves of absence to care for a minor or dependent family member. For Sordo, in addition to unpaid care, “double and triple shifts” are behind many of the sick leave due to psychosocial effects.
CC OO believes that The most pressing thing is to “legally define” what it means to care professionally. and bring the figure of “personal assistant” to collective bargaining.
Among the hundred measures, the a comprehensive public care system supported by a Care Lawwith sufficient financing and finalist. Decent public employment of care, prioritize deinstitutionalization, prepare a map of the public care network.
In infancy They demand extending free 0-3 education, as well as the school cafeteria. In disabilities, shorten long waiting periods for procedures and expand resources in day or occupational centers. In addition, the birth leave would be 20 weeks, and the paid infant care leave would be up to the child’s 12 months.
Both in dependency and for the elderly, the creation of residences and multidisciplinary teams for the close care of elderly and dependent people to a lesser degree is requested. In his opinion, alternatives for coexistence would be needed, assisted housing that does not force people to move away from their living environments. In addition to promoting the adaptation of housing or protection against energy poverty. And action plans for unwanted loneliness.
Among the measures that would affect employees in the care sector, the union asks improve the working conditions of female workers and strengthen home labor inspection.
Regarding administration, the union includes measures aimed at reduce the times of the assessment processesdegree recognition and assignment of dependency benefit, a period set at 3 months. Sordo has regretted that there are 290,000 people on the waiting list at the agency and that every 13 minutes a person on that list dies.
