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The sector of home help in Madrid will go on indefinite strike to defend its Collective Agreement. Home help workers in Madrid have decided to call an indefinite strike from April 6, upon being notified of the employer's proposed wage freeze and reduction of rights. The sector of home care in the Community of Madrid has 10,000 workers who provide care services in homes of about 50,000 people.

On 17th March, at the premises of the trade union CCOO in Madrid, the employers of the sector ASEMAD made a collective agreement proposal considered by CCOO as insufficient, including some unacceptable negotiation requirements such as the request for the trade union to withdraw prior allegations of breach of agreement. The representatives of CCOO Construction and Services at the negotiating table considered the measures put forward by ASEMAD as an offense.

That same afternoon, in the auditorium Marcelino Camacho CCOO, 2,000 people decided to conduct demonstrations and call for an indefinite strike to protect their rights and their collective agreement.

The indefinite strike will start from 07:00 on April 6. This will be preceded by a demonstration from Plaza de Cibeles to the Puerta del Sol, March 28 at 12 noon.

ASEMAD, after more than a year and three months of negotiation, wants to freeze seniority and wages for the years 2014 and 2015 and make a pyrrhic rise of 0.3% for 2016 as well as increase the working week by half an hour.

The CEOE (Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations) has recently proposed increases of 0.9%, however ASEMAD provides wage freezes and increased daily hours. Moreover, these figures are far from what the CCOO, in negotiating the National Collective Bargaining Agreement is proposing: "numbers that do not begin with 0,"

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