Strikes

According to the unions, more than three million people joined the general strike - which employs 5.1 million people - and which they have described as "one of the most successful strikes ever carried out" in Portugal. Portuga employers say that the strike has failed and only 3% of the workers have stayed at home.

The follow-up is therefore similar to that on Wednesday in the same shift (19.02%) and somewhat higher than on Tuesday (17.26%). At noon, dozens of health workers concentrated at the gates of the Txagorritxu Hospital in Vitoria-Gasteiz to claim their own status. 

In the face of the attacks on the Euskera, the youth organization Ikama wants to bring the importance of education to the front line with today's strike, calling for "a model of its own, Euskaldun and quality".

The doctors who took part in today's mobilization have been at the gates of Donostia Hospital for more than half an hour with two placards with the slogan "For a medical and medical status" and several against 24-hour guards.

The Medical Union of the Basque Country shall strike against the draft Framework Statute. In the face of negotiations, a Statute of its own has been promulgated, which alone may reflect the specific characteristics of the profession and defend a specific regulation.

The Bureau aims to improve the working conditions of all workers in the National Health System, health and non-health, "without exception, without privileges and without distortions". They criticize the fact that the Ministry is negotiating the Statute in parallel with medical unions.

The protests will take place from Monday to Thursday. On the one hand, stops have been called from 11:00 to 12:00. On the other hand, rallies will be held at 11:15, depending on the day on one campus or another.

The convening unions (UGT, LAB, CCOO, ELA) have recalled that the Navarra sector agreement, which affects 5,000 workers, dates back 17 years. They have warned that negotiations with the ANET employers are "blocked" and that with this strike day they want to press for meetings to be convened. 

UGT, CCOO, ELA and LAB are calling for the truck drivers to stop from 22:00 this evening until 22:00 on Monday, so that the unions will press for further negotiations on the agreement, which has not been renewed for 17 years.

The group has called for stops from 9:00 to 12:00 and the demonstration will end in front of the Bilbao City Council to denounce the "unfair competition" of VTC services.

Senior technicians and health specialists have had a fourth dayof strike throughout the state to report that university degrees in Europe are acquired through vocational training in the Spanish state.  In addition to this, they request recognition of a professional profile distinct from the nursing treatment and follow-up professions.

Eighty percent of the workers voted against the pact reached between management and the union majority, so the so-called "locker room war" will be decided in court. Petronor has been standing still for a month and a half.

ELA and CCOO have announced a call to show their rejection of the "employers" bloc "in the negotiation of the agreement.

Tradinsa, the association of Navarre hauliers, continues the demonstrations, which took place today on the A-68 motorway. Among other things, demonstrators are calling for the abolition of tolls and the equalization of taxation with that of other communities.

LAB, CCOO, UGT, Steilas, ESK, CGT/LK, Etxalde and Hiru have held joint demonstrations in the capitals at 12:30 noon, while ELA has called for demonstrations in the four capitals of Hego Euskal Herria from 11:45 a.m.