“Domestic worker’s day” is a non -working holiday
A press conference in the Hall of Acts Enrique Erro, 1st floor of the headquarters of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, will mark the most important point of the activities of the day of the domestic worker.
There the union will propose a series of historical claims that go through the concretion of the categories, the construction of housing and care training courses.
“Today is a non -working payment holiday. There are partners who have to work because each one knows the possibilities of their pocket and are right to do so with the exception that double must charge” recalled Laura Rivero.
“From this Monday a mobile speaker is coming out in all the subsidiaries where it is advertising that today is the national day of the domestic worker, which is a non -working payment holiday and where some of the achievements we have had so far” are disseminated ” commented to The daily professional.
“At 2 in the afternoon we will have a press conference at the Ministry of Labor and Social Security with the presence of the Minister, the president of the BPS and the Housewives League” detailed.
Delegations from several parts of the country, Melo among them, began arriving from the eve to Montevideo to participate in this activity.
Main claims
“We will insist on the claim for the categories, theme that is always on the table on these dates” advancement.
“Yesterday Monday 18 we introduce ourselves again at the Salary Councils” reported.
“We also have claims on housing. We want a specific plan for domestic workers to be elaborated because with the salary so low that we have any bank gives us a loan. Paying very high rentals we have nothing in hand for the construction of our house. In addition, in most cases we are heads of household” The president of the Single Union of Domestic Workers. “That is why we have demanded from previous governments and we are also demanding it to the current one to create a specific plan for our sector” express.
Rivero also raised the urgent need to access training courses dictated by the INEFOP. “Those we have presented on the platforms are adult care. We claim that we are integrated into the care system because we are not recognized as caregivers. It is unfortunate that Uruguay has been the first country to ratify an international agreement of domestic work as it did in 2013 where it says that domestic workers are one of the careless sectors, we are an example in the world, and in Uruguay it is not respected” denounced the union leader.
“The care system is at a dialogue table and we are not present. We are demanding that we are included. Unfortunately we come to claim also, demanding the training because as everyone knows, we have evidence, we have notes with all the media, where we have raised it about the training for the care of children, adults or people with disabilities. We are always told that we belong to the care system. We are a large part of the workers that we do take care ” Laura Rivero emphasized, president of the Single Union of Domestic Workers of Uruguay.
