During Friday's events, nearly a hundred workers gathered to inform citizens about their employment situation and to prepare various actions in defense of a public care system and an agreement that "improves their working conditions, moving towards parity with those in the public sector".
Throughout the night, more than 30 people slept in the Plaza Nueva to highlight that, in addition to their working conditions, sector workers are "fighting for a public care system that guarantees adequate attention and sufficient places to meet growing social needs".
“"This stems from the "impoverishment" of the working class and the consequences of "an unjust and savage heteropatriarchal capitalist system that pushes thousands of people in our territory into exclusion and social defenselessness."
After this "successful" encampment and a press conference by the unions ELA, LAB, CCOO, and ESK, starting at 12:00 PM, the workers began a demonstration that traversed the center of the Álava capital, connecting Plaza Nueva and Plaza de la Provincia.
During the march, the sector's staff received support from various social groups such as Arabako Pentsionistak Lanean, Zaintza Araba, Gasteizko Mugimendu Feminista, Gasteizko Bilgune Feminista, Arabako Denon Bizitzak Erdigunean, Emakumeok Gerraren Aurka-Mujeres contra la Guerra, Errota Zaharra Auzo Elkartea, and Judimendikoak Auzo Elkartea, among others.
They stated that with this demonstration, the sector's workers have once again shown that "they will not be stopped from mobilizing and defending their just demands".
The workers recalled that on April 30, there was a new meeting of the negotiating table, where the employer AISA proposed a 2.5% increase for 2025 retroactively, which "does not even guarantee the maintenance of purchasing power, as the CPI for 2024 was 3.6%".
At the meeting, as explained, the unions committed to sending a new negotiation proposal to be responded to by the employer on all points at the next meeting on May 19, which, in their opinion, will be "a new opportunity to act responsibly and finally listen to the proposals of the staff".
“"The Generalitat de Catalunya approved an agreement with salary increases close to 40% over four years in the social sector to guarantee the equalization of conditions with those of the public sector. This is what we are asking for: it is fair and possible."
They have stated that what they are asking for is "fair and possible" and they will not stop "until they achieve the agreement that the professional and essential work carried out by social intervention workers deserves, and advance towards a public care system with adequate and sufficient social resources to meet all social needs".
