Women's strike Campaign for Care Strike 2027 launched
The Feminist Strike Collective Zurich has launched a campaign for a national care strike in 2027. The strike under the motto "Do you care?" has been supported and developed by various collectives throughout Switzerland.
14.06.2025, 18:00
SDA
The strike is scheduled to take place exactly two years from now on Monday, June 14, 2027. A spokesperson for the Feminist Strike Collective explained to the Keystone-SDA news agency that the preparations of the volunteers require a lot of lead time and that June 14, 2026 is a Sunday.
"In 2027, we will walk off the job and show society what happens when care work is no longer provided," the strike collective wrote in a communiqué on Saturday. Care work is the foundation of our society. Without care, there is no life. Now we can no longer take it for granted.
The care crisis is deeply rooted in the capitalist system and is at odds with profit maximization, which is why it is being systematically devalued, it continued. The feminization of work also means that care work is poorly paid and not recognized by society.
Women perform more care work
Worldwide, two thirds of paid care workers are women. In Switzerland, women perform two thirds of unpaid domestic work, which corresponds to 32 hours per week. Men do 22 hours. Almost half of Swiss grandmothers look after their grandchildren at least once a week. The figure for grandfathers is slightly less than a third, according to the strike collective.
Intersectional discrimination is exacerbating the crisis. Among others, migrants, people of color, women, queer people, older people and people with disabilities are particularly affected both as care workers and as people who need care work.
"Yes to work, but not under these conditions," wrote the strike collective. It is therefore demanding fair pay, more time as well as better working conditions, social security and visibility of the mostly invisible care work.
