Strikes
Monitors for all students and monitoring, among the minimum services established by the Government for the catering strike
The Basque Government has issued an order guaranteeing the "maintenance of essential service" in school canteens in the face of the strike called by the LAB and ELA unions for 10, 11 and 12 March. The aim of this measure is "to ensure that no minor is neglected while at the same time preserving the right of workers to strike".
School canteen companies have offered a 20% pay increase in five years and have called for the strike to be called off
The observers will stop on 10, 11 and 12 March because "no progress has been made" in the negotiations, according to the unions. The companies have assured that they have already accepted the main demands of the collective.
During the dining strike, Pedrosa has asked for respect for students taking food from outside if the school allows it
The Education Counsellor has asked that, after three days of strike last week by school canteen workers to demand an improvement in their working conditions, the previous situation should not be repeated after being called for 10, 11 and 12 March, because in some schools, students were deprived of food taken from their homes. Pedrosa has asked unions and companies "not to rise from the table" until an agreement has been reached, because they have a "good basis" for it.
News: Medical strike, mobilization of workers from Tubos Reunidos and Maderas de Llodio, and monitoring session in the Basque Parliament
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Doctors are on their last day of strike this week to demand their own status
The next stops will take place in the week from 16 to 20 March.
Dozens of social partners have joined the March 17 strike for their own minimum wage
"Having a minimum wage of its own in the Basque Country is a demand that benefits all the people who work and live in it," they said at a hearing in Bilbao.
The situation of the rivers, when will it stop? and the strike in Tubos Reunidos
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What do the doctors ask?
Medical unions demand their own Statutory Framework on the grounds that their profession has characteristics that distinguish them from the other professions in the health sector.
It will be news: medical strike, airport transfer and yellow warning for rain
Tubos Reunidos has announced more stops in February and March
The stops will coincide with the negotiating tables proposed by the company and will take place on 17, 23 and 26 February, and on 4 and 9 March. On this occasion, the Trapagaran plant will also join the mobilizations.
LAB has called for a strike in public school canteens in the ACV on 24, 25 and 26 February
The union alleges that the agreement is blocked, that the wage increases already agreed have not been paid and that there has been no progress in ratios, functions and working hours, a situation which, according to the union, is unsustainable and directly affecting the quality of service.
Minority trade unions in the railway sector continue the strike and minimum services are maintained
CGT, SF-Intersyndicate and Alferro have maintained the strike until Wednesday. The main unions, Semaf, CCOO and UGT, for their part, have called off the strike following the signing of an agreement with the Ministry of Transport for large investments in security.
There will be news: Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl, strike in the Reunited Tubes and stops in Renfe
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The train drivers are on strike after the train service crisis
The majority unions (CCOO, UGT and Semaf) decided to maintain the strike of 9, 10 and 11 February because they did not reach a satisfactory agreement with the Minister of Transport, Oscar Puente.
The Basque Government and the Spanish Government have set minimum services for next week's strike in the railway sector
The main railway unions (CC. OO., UGT and Semaf of train drivers) will continue the strike called for next week, from 9 to 11 February.
ELA has registered a strike in social initiative centres on 20 January and has asked the new director of Kristau Eskola to change his attitude
The head of Education of ELA, Mira Zubizarreta, has recalled that the agreement of February 2024 came after 14 days of strike and that, at present, some of the "relevant contents" that were signed in that agreement "are not being complied with by the employers".
Today will be news of the transfer meeting, the second day of the medical strike and the farmers' protests at the border
Today, January 15, 2026, the Government will decide whether the conditions for attending tomorrow's meeting of the Joint Transfer Commission are in place; the doctors in Osakidetza will have a second day of strike, after yesterday's, to demand their own status; and the farmers and farmers in Hego Euskal Herria will make a tractor march towards Biriatu.
Petronor called off the strike after the company refused to take legal action
The unions have called off the indefinite strike, in agreement with the management, after 83 days of unemployment.
Despite respecting the call for a strike, Torres believes that "it is not the best way" to achieve the minimum wage in the Basque Country
The Second Vice-President of the Basque Government and Adviser for Economy, Employment and Labour has asked the unions and employers to sit down and talk because "is always dialogue, the best solution to reach agreements".
