LES DONES PIÑEIRO

A family story, of class, gender, and identity, but above all, it is the story of the silenced role of women in the workers' and trade union struggles of the 1980s. Taking as a guiding thread several generations of the Piñeiro family—originating from Ourense and settled in the industrial belt of Barcelona—the work travels from the struggles for equal pay during the early years of the democratic period to the redundancies resulting from the bursting of the property bubble. The action is set in a fictitious boiler and thermostat factory, where the female workers carry out a strike to put an end to labor discrimination based on gender. Intersectionality, class consciousness, and identity struggles permeate the proposal. Les dones Piñeiro is a comedy about women who fight: they fight to be good workers, good wives, good mothers, good workers, and even, good women. They fight to decide about their destiny, to be able to advance, to arrive on time, to have the right to a nursery. They fight for their dignity and that of their colleagues. They fight—without the support of their male counterparts—to achieve advances of which today