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Spain Faces 24-Hour General Strike Over Housing Crisis
UGT and CCOO say 4 million workers joined the 24-hour walkout as unions pressed for rent controls, tenant protections and more public housing.
- On Wednesday, November 11, 2026, millions of Spanish workers participated in a 24-hour general strike, paralyzing transport and industry to demand government action on the nation's severe housing affordability crisis.
- Nationwide outrage over the September eviction and death of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal fueled the walkout, as soaring rents and a structural deficit of 750,000 homes leave many citizens unable to afford housing.
- Major unions UGT and CCOO reported 90% participation in automotive and port sectors, though police pepper-sprayed protesters at Madrid's Mercamadrid wholesale market, leaving at least 13 people seeking medical attention.
- Opposition parties dismissed the protest as a political maneuver ahead of the November 29 snap election, with Popular Party spokesperson Miguel Tellado calling it an "election strike" rather than a labor action.
- With the snap election approaching, the strike underscores intense political polarization over housing, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez faces trailing polls and a potential challenge from a far-right coalition.
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Millions of people in Spain joined a general strike on Wednesday over high housing prices. Protest marches flooded the streets of cities, with the largest ones drawing tens of thousands of people.
At the center of the national strike of 24 hours on Wednesday, called exclusively by the associations of the tenants and later supported by the unions, there is the protest against the growing crisis housing
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The first general strike after 14 years, 18 days after the vote. For the unions in the square have dropped more than 4 million people. Police charges and dozens of arrests in Madrid. People speak of "preventive strike against the future government Feijoo." Sánchez looks for the comeback
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