Workers Across Spain Stage First General Strike in 14 Years in Anger over Housing
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Workers across Spain stage first general strike in 14 years in anger over housing
MADRID, Nov 11 - Spanish workers went on a general strike on Wednesday, setting up picket lines despite stormy weather in a mass protest against the country's housing affordability crisis a few weeks before a snap general election. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The journey starts tense in Mercamadrid, where the leader of UGT, Pepe Álvarez, accuses the police of blocking the right to strike. The 24-hour paralysis requires wage increases and measures to face the housing crisis.
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The general strike scheduled for Wednesday, November 11, to demand the right to housing and decent wages in the face of the rising cost of living, began with a series of rallies and informational pickets and will conclude with a large demonstration in the afternoon. The general strike, called by the CCOO and UGT unions, along with the CGT, CNT, Actors and Actresses Union, CO.BAS, the Intersindical, and the Tenants' Union Confederation, includes …
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Diario de JerezThe day of stoppages can alter movements to work and classes, in addition to medical consultations. It follows the incidences and mobilizations in Andalusia and all Spain.
Salaries, housing, prices. The great unions of Spain, CC OO and UGT, call on the working class to stop this Wednesday with that slogan, in the first general strike they call for in the last 14 years. It is a “heterodox” appeal, as the centrals themselves have recognized, for several reasons: it does not answer to a concrete legislative project or a single public administration, part of an outbreak of social outrage over an eviction and mobilizat…
The event will include information pickets, mobilizations for public education and rallies in other municipalities
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