Cleaning workers in A Coruña They have raised their yellow scrubbing to denounce the precarious working conditions that have ended the agreement two years ago, after which They have not obtained a salary climb not even telling inflation.
“We clean in institutes, health centers … When someone enters a place and looks clean, it is not someone invisible, we are us,” says María Jesús García Pérez, cleaner.
The base salary of which it works A full day is 1,075 eurosa salary already very low, but The most common is to work for hours, with partial contract and varying companies. But it is usual to work for hours. Partial contract and in several companies, as happens to Teresa Roca. “I start at 8 in the morning, I have a center and in the afternoon I am four,” he explains. Now, the displacements from one point to another of the city have to be paid on their own.
According to sector data, 90% of cleaners are women, such as Yolanda Seijas, which cleans office buildings: “It is easier for a man to get a specialist position.” A job that leaves sequels: “The arms, shoulders, tendons, the rotator sleeve, several broken tendons … but you have to come to work like this.”
Therefore, they demand a fairer salary that adapts to inflation, but The state employer has blocked the agreement. “It is the one who does not want to sign saying that it is impossible for them, that it is unfeasible to accept that climb,” says María Jesús García Pérez.
Now, without agreement, they have announced that they will make more mobilizations to continue claiming fair conditions of work.
