Urgent Travel Alert as Nationwide Strike Threatens Widespread Disruption and Delays
UGT and CCOO say the walkout will pressure officials to address rents, wages and labor protections as schools and transport face disruptions.
- Spain's two largest trade unions, UGT and CCOO, have called a nationwide 24-hour general strike for Wednesday November 11 to protest the country's severe housing crisis.
- Public outrage over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid, who had lived in her home for seven decades, exposed mounting pressure on long-term tenants amid soaring rents and gentrification.
- Widespread travel disruption is expected across Spain, potentially impacting flights, trains, and schools; this marks the first joint action by UGT and CCOO in 14 years.
- While employers must maintain minimum service levels, participation is a fundamental right; workers face salary deductions, yet according to CCOO, the "company is prohibited from monitoring your activity on that day."
- Union leaders scheduled the walkout for Wednesday November 11, occurring just two days before the official start of the election campaign, to avoid potential legal challenges as the electoral process formally begins.
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The general strike of this Wednesday, November 11, two days after the start of the electoral campaign, raises passions both in the parties that call to support it and in those that try to discourage it. The social mobilization that unleashed the Maricarmen case put at the center of the debate the possibility that a housing strike would be called in Spain, which took place two days after the president of the government, Pedro Sanchez, decided to …
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