Spain's burnt out 'babysitter grandparents' urged to strike | World news | The Guardian: "call has gone out for grandparents around Spain to down tools this Wednesday and go on strike – because they're sick to the teeth of all that childcare.
For a country where half of all grandparents look after their grandchildren every day – one in eight for more than nine hours a day – the strike call threatens to disrupt the working lives of a significant proportion of the population and expose the extent to which this unpaid work is propping up the economy.
'We want grandparents to strike to prove they are a key part of the way this country functions,' said Manuel Pastrana, leader of the UGT general workers' union in the southern region of Andalucia. 'Learn to say no' and 'don't feel guilty' are the slogans, aimed at so-called 'babysitter grandparents'."
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