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Nationalist Unions Call for a General Strike for a Minimum Wage of 1,500 Euros per Month in Euskadi and Navarra

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The main Basque nationalist unions, ELA and LAB, with the support of other related organizations, have called a general strike for Tuesday, March 17, in the Basque Country and Navarre to demand that these communities have the capacity to decide their own minimum interprofessional wage (SMI) and raise it to 1,500 euros per month in 14 payments per year. The mobilization has the support of 1,750 company committees and just over a hundred social ag…

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ELA, LAB and other organizations have called this Thursday a general strike in Navarre to demand a decentralized minimum wage and 1,500 eurosGeneral strike in Álava, Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Navarra, live Thousands of people have demonstrated this Tuesday through the streets of the center of Pamplona to claim a minimum wage of 1,500 euros for Navarra, higher than the 1,221 euros that marks the SMI of Spain. Convened by the trade unions ELA, LAB, St…

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Several Basque roads and two points of the railway network have suffered spot cuts of traffic by pickets and sabotages on the occasion of the general strike called in Country...

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The main Basque nationalist unions, ELA and LAB, with the support of other related organizations, have called a general strike for Tuesday, March 17, in the Basque Country and Navarre to demand that these communities have the capacity to decide their own minimum interprofessional wage (SMI) and raise it to 1,500 euros per month in 14 payments per year. The mobilization has the support of 1,750 company committees and just over a hundred social ag…

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The general strike for a specific inter-professional minimum wage (SMI) of 1,500 euros in the Basque Country South started with a strong participation...

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The general strike called on March 17 in Euskadi and Navarra to claim a minimum wage of 1,500 euros has had a major impact in several places. For example, in Bilbao, the pressure of pickets and mobilizations forced the temporary closure of several establishments, including large chains. Without going further, El Corte Inglés became the center of the conversation on social networks. El Corte Inglés’s name has not gone viral just because of its ex…

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The Abertzales unions ELA and LAB measure their forces in Euskadi in the general strike called today in demand of a Basque SMI of 1,500 euros. The strike is a clear challenge to the employer Confebask, who refuses to negotiate this demand; and to the government of Imanol Pradales. Read

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El Salto broke the news in on Monday, March 16, 2026.
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