The concerted residence of Madres Mercedarias, located in the Ibarra de Orozko neighborhood, is in danger of closing. In it, 43 workers care for 63 women with intellectual disabilities. Faced with the threat of closure, he asks the Diputación to take charge of the situation.
The workers of the Mercedarian Mothers residence they have busy this sunday the church of Llodio (Álava) with the aim of denouncing the threat of closing the center of Ibarra.
As they have denounced, the residence of Madres Mercedarias, located in the Ibarra de Orozko neighborhood, is in danger of closure and they are a total of 116 workers and users those who are “in danger of being left on the street” and, therefore, have decided to carry out this protest action.
The workers have explained that, during the confinement, they plan to hold different talks, as well as round tables in the same church, on the outside of which they have placed a banner that reads “Madres Mercedarias ez Itxi (Mercedarian Mothers do not close) “.
Numerous people have entered, chanting protest cries, inside the church, where they have also agreed with a banner against the closure and in which solutions were demanded from the Diputación.
Closing Hazard
The Madres Mercedarias de Ibarra residential scepter in Orozko, a concerted center of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, is in danger of closing. It is a center in which the users are more than 60 women with intellectual disabilities and they are currently cared for by 43 workers.
The Congregation of Mercedarian Mothers intends to abandon the service and, according to the LAB and ESK unions, if no one takes charge, the center will close. The workers have been denouncing their situation and working conditions for several months.
As indicated in a statement, the workers have a base salary of 990 euros, frozen since 2019, the year in which their working hours were also increased, without therefore seeing the salary increased.
For all these reasons, they urge the Provincial Council of Bizkaia to take charge of the situation to avoid the closure. According to the union committee, the response of the foral institution “has been heartbreaking” and it is that, according to what they indicate, the Provincial Council is not committed to keeping the center open. The alternative of taking the women to other centers would be considered, which, according to the workers, would mean “very serious and in some cases irreparable damage to their lives.” They explain that many of them spend more than half of their lives in this center.
Source: Eitb
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