Daycare workers demonstrated in Hamburg on Tuesday evening for better working conditions. According to a dpa photo reporter, several hundred people took part in a protest march under the motto “We are burned out – employees in Hamburg daycare centers are at the load limit”.
In view of the major staff shortages and heavy burdens, all DGB trade unions reportedly called for the protest, as well as the state parents’ committee for childcare in Hamburg, the daycare network in Hamburg and the daycare support associations SOAL and Kindermitte.
The participants’ posters read, for example, “Good work needs good conditions
Two years ago, the Verdi day-care center staff check found that there was a lack of 4,000 skilled workers in Hamburg, the Verdi union said. Now the recently presented nationwide state monitor for early childhood education systems for the Hanseatic city has stated: “In order for 2023 to be equipped with personnel keys according to scientific recommendations – including those that still have to be created to meet the still unmet parental needs – around 6,200 specialists are missing.”