March 8, Usb strikes and demonstrates throughout Italy against the exploitation of women's work

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07 March 2021 "The Union of the Base has responded to the call of 'Non Una di Meno' for 8 March and for the fifth consecutive year has proclaimed a general strike for the whole day of all public and private categories, with the exception of schools and local public transport ".

In a note USB - Basic Union Union - announces the national general strike "Against exploitation: intermittent, precarious, demoted, blackmail, free, invisible work. It will be a strike from nursing and reproductive work, without which the whole society it will be forced to stop. It will be a strike against the dismantling of the welfare state and for the right to income, housing, work, equal wages, support measures for escaping violence. It will be a strike so as not to leave anyone behind. the end of the blockade of layoffs and evictions is just around the corner. To those who speak of good debt and bad debt we respond with the fight against inequality and the redistribution of wealth. It will be a strike because the strike is the most powerful weapon we have! ".

2020, with the Coronavirus pandemic, has accentuated all the

because "women are in the front row in the 'production chain', but expendable on the altar of the economic crisis" in fact "70% of those who have lost their work is a woman "underlines the Usb.

According to Istat data, during 2020 in Italy 444,000 people lost their jobs.

Over 70% of them are women.

In December 2020, out of 101,000 people who lost their jobs, 99,000 were women, 98%.

Of the 131,000

reported to Inail, 7 out of 10 are women.

Of these workers, more than 40% are between 50 and 64 years old.

"This happens because women are employed in the jobs most exposed to contagion: care, cleaning jobs in schools and hospitals, teachers and school collaborators. Jobs that have been defined as" essential ", but only as long as necessary for production and profit" analyzes the Usb.

So on March 8, within the day of the feminist strike,

take to the streets highlighting how: "We take to the streets because we fight every day in and out of the workplace. This is why on March 8 we strike, because we fight every day, for public welfare, for the elimination of social profit, for the respect of our rights, for the respect of the same contracts that we have contested but which are not even applied. Because precarious is the our salary, our contract is precarious, the contracts we work for are precarious, the rights of citizens are precarious due to the logic of the market and contracts ".

In addition to the

by '

',

organizes 4 directly linked to the struggles and demands of women in the workplace.

"In Bologna - explains Usb - social workers (educators, social workers, Oss, social workers) will demonstrate; in Pontedera the precarious historical Piaggio, protagonists last year of a protest on the roof of Palazzo Blu that went on for 30 days ; in Rome in front of the Miur the cleaning contract workers in the schools; in Naples the domestic workers.

:

- 10 am, viale Aldo Moro 16 in front of Legacoop, with social workers;

- 12 noon, building blue Via E. Mattei 2, with the Piaggio workers fighting for work;

- 10 am, in viale Trastevere al Miur, with the cleaning contract workers in the schools;

- 10 am, in Piazza del Plebiscito, with domestic workers.