{"id":8452,"date":"2022-10-19T10:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T08:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/?post_type=news&p=8452"},"modified":"2022-10-19T14:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:17:59","slug":"czech-union-organizes-four-more-care-homes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/czech-union-organizes-four-more-care-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech union organizes four more care homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ALICE union, which has been supported by UNI\u2019s European Organizing Centre COZZ since June 2020, is pushing to improve working conditions and change lives at one of Czechia\u2019s largest elderly care providers<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Workers at Alzheimer Home in \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice, Zl\u00ednn, \u010cesk\u00e1 L\u00edpa and Filipov are celebrating a big win after simultaneously founding unions at each of their facilities, covering over 375 workers.<\/p>\r\n

After successfully signing one of the first collective agreements in the Czech care sector<\/a> earlier in the year at the Jihlava centre, organizers used the agreement (which runs until the end of 2023 and covers around 70 workers), as a base to push for agreements at the other 4 Alzheimers homes.<\/p>\r\n

“We want to provide quality care to our clients, and to do that we need good working conditions. That’s why we joined the union,” said a newly organized worker. \u201cWe care for our clients with love, but we also need decent working conditions, which we can only achieve through collective bargaining and a voice on the job.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Workers across the 4 sites are working together as one \u2013 they are electing a common negotiating team, taking decisions as a team, and standing together in solidarity to fight for fair rights and dignity on the job.<\/p>\r\n