By Fondo de Mujeres del Sur | In close collaboration with the activists
Register me! The union for women workers in family homes celebrates its 60-year anniversary
SinPeCaF is the Union for Domestic Workers in Family Homes in Córdoba (Argentina). They recently turned 60, while celebrating ten years of that historic law: the Special Regime of Employment Contract for Domestic Workers.
Among photos, notebooks and folders, on each desk in the SinPeCaf office there is a spreadsheet taped to the table. It is a salary scale that establishes the minimum remuneration per hour worked for people who perform cleaning and maintenance work, or non-therapeutic care of children or the elderly. In Argentina, since 2013, those who do these tasks have had their labour rights recognised, after a long struggle during which unions from all over the country collaborated.
We talked with them about how the organisation started, their day-to-day activities and the transformation that meeting, getting together and maintaining a shared space implies in the lives and work of women.
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