16-18 October, Berlin: UmCare - Strategy Conference on Care and Health

Nursing and healthcare are massively affected by the neoliberal reorganisation of the welfare state. Those who cannot afford it are increasingly excluded from needs-based care. Employees in turn suffer from stress, low wages and precarious working conditions. The pressure is also increasing for those who care for relatives or friends.We need a fundamental change of perspective, a UmCARE!Together with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Bundestag, the Care Revolution network is organising a strategy conference on care and health in Berlin.

Friday, 16.10.2015 to Sunday, 18.10.2015all day

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, BerlinFranz-Mehring-Platz 1 10243 Berlin At the conference, we want to discuss and develop joint strategies with relatives and people with care needs, employees, trade unions and social organisations: How can we find ways to get out of this system? How can we create a needs-based infrastructure that is financed in a spirit of solidarity and organised democratically? How do we defend ourselves against the precarisation of living and working conditions? How do we combine trade union industrial action with the concerns of those who are dependent on care and support? What do powerful, innovative alliances look like? The detailed programme can be found at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. An interview with the co-organisers Barbara Fried (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and in the co-circle of the Care Revolution network) and Hannah Schurian (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) provides a good insight into the character and aims of the conference: "Entering the exit from the economised healthcare system."An interview with Pia Zimmerman and Harald Weinberg from our cooperation partner Left Fraction also reiterates the connection in terms of content to our Care Revolution action conference in March 2014:"Conference "UmCARE" - For new strategies in health and care".