Protest for the 8th of March – I don’t want flowers, give me workers’ rights!

Saturday, 8 March 2025, at 4 pm

Protest

Congress Square

1000 Ljubljana

Protest for the 8th of March – I don’t want flowers, give me workers’ rights!

March 8, International Working Women’s Day, will be marked again this year with a protest! It is a day of protests, strikes and struggle, when we remember all the predecessors who fought for a classless society and the abolition of patriarchy. On March 8, we encourage women to fight for the full realization of their equality, to mobilize in the revolutionary struggle for socialism.
At the protest, we will highlight the problem of feminization of professions in sectors such as childcare, healthcare and nursing, care for the elderly, food processing and textile industries, retail, cooking and cleaning. All of these are professions that we need to reproduce the workforce and society. We will all need kindergarten, healthcare, school, nursing home, care or assistance in the course of our lives. Wherever we turn in these sectors, we encounter catastrophic working conditions, low wages and overworked staff.

Due to poor public funding and a shortage of staff in the care sector, services are inaccessible and unaffordable for the majority. Why do educators, teachers, carers, carers, nurses and social workers work for ever lower wages and why are they increasingly stressed and exhausted? In addition, too often as daughters, wives and mothers we also do care work at home because our families cannot afford care. At the expense of our exhaustion, capital makes profits, and public services are falling apart!

Therefore, it is in our common interest to defend these sectors from privatization and to fight for better working conditions in them! Public and accessible healthcare, free education, care for the elderly and the care and upbringing of children are in the common interest of all female students and workers. The fight to eliminate the feminization of professions is the fight for accessible public services and quality care.
Therefore, on March 8, we protest and demand public services tailored to the needs of workers, not capital!

We demand:
– Higher wages and improved working conditions for workers in feminized professions;
– A permanent systemic source of financing for nursing homes;
– Strengthening the public kindergarten system and reducing fees and increasing their accessibility;
– Socialization and self-management of the public service system!

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Organization: Iskra Association

Photo: Iskra’s Archive

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