Work-life balance: the unions’ position

Abstract

Through both the exploitation of European and Spanish official documents, jointly with interview analysis carried out among Spanish labor unionists, the position of labor unions around work-life balance policies is explained. The analysis achieved in this article puts forward that the formulation of work-life balance as a collective right does not seem to imply a real balance among the productive, the domestic and the personal dimensions of working life. In all, its identification as a women-only policy does not promote a new organization of work, domestic as well as productive, or an increase of public aid services.