Labor conflict
Doctors start their first week of strike in favor of a Statutory Framework on Monday
The Spanish Minister of Health, Monica García, has on several occasions refused to create such a written rule for doctors.
Workers at the Zubieta incinerator have announced mobilizations for a new agreement
They have reported that they have made several attempts to negotiate "an agreement that protects the health of workers", each of which has received "only a refusal from the company".
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.
Bengoetxea believes that to ensure the viability of Tubos Reunidos "debt restructuring is necessary"
Interviewed on the radio programme "Faktoria" by Euskadi Irratia, the Vice-President of the Basque Government and Counsellor for Culture and Linguistic Policy, Ibone Bengoetxea, has stated that in this restructuring of the debt the Government will be "travelling partner".
Cebek believes that the indefinite strike "is not the solution" and that for Tubos Reunidos it would be "the end"
Cebek's president, Guillermo Buces, recalled that the Vizcaina employers warned that this company "has a very large part of its production destined for the American market, about 45% or 50%," and that "if that market, by imposing a 50% tariff, suddenly disappears, you have a serious problem that compromises your viability."
Tubos Reunidos has temporarily closed the 2025 financial year with losses of EUR 71.3 million
The turnover increased by 13%, but the low average sales price has caused the company's debt to rise to €263.2 million. The company, which has factories in Amurrio (Álava) and Trapagaran (Bizkaia), has stated in a statement that they need to quantify the damage caused by the fall in activity in the United States.
Tubos Reunion strike starts tonight in Amurrio pending regulatory report
The management will meet this Monday with the trade union representation of the two factories and report on the ERE.
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 Tubos Reunion Works Council has called for the suspension of the ERE, opening the way to "fighting"
"Our position is firm, we want to say loud and clear: do not deceive Basque society, neither Tubos Reunidos, nor the institutions, nor the Basque Government, because it is a company that has received a lot of public money, more than 100 million, to ensure its viability and to maintain industrial activity and employment," they explained.
ELA, LAB, CC. OO. and ESK unions Ertzaintza in Vitoria for "peaceful" protesters They have denounced the "attacks" against them
The Alavesa capital has mobilized to demand job improvements in the social intervention sector in Álava.
ACV taxi drivers have demonstrated in Bilbao against the "abuses" of VTC platforms
They have reported that in Bizkaia the "flow" of new licences for these vehicles is "constant", authorized by the Provincial Council. They have reported that in Gipuzkoa the situation is different because no new licences are granted, while in Álava they say that "institutional resistance is greater".
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".
Doctors resume strike and protest to demand better working conditions
The Medical Union has no intention of fighting this battle with the Ministry of Health and continues to proclaim its own status. No Navarra, the Department of Health reports that unemployment has continued at 2.83%. Ouskadi indicates that the follow-up has been 19.23% in the morning shift and 8.26% in the afternoon shift.
In compliance with the ruling, the management has decided that Petronor's staff could change in the old locker room
In the fall of 2025 there was an 83 day strike when workers changed their locker room to report that the change involved an extension of the working day of 15-30 minutes. The courts proved them right.
The self-schools in Navarre have again reported a lack of examiners
They report that the lack of examiners and staff in the DGT provincial offices causes "significant delays in both theoretical and practical examinations" and recall that the examination should be "a right, not a privilege". They will continue to demonstrate every Monday until the situation is resolved.
Farmers continue to protest in the North, and the A-63 has been cut off
Alberto Martinez, on the medical strike: "After two years and 12 drafts, it's time to reach an agreement."
The Health Adviser, Alberto Martínez, has recalled that the Framework Statute establishing the framework for statutory workers' relations "is the exclusive competence of the Ministry of Health, which must take it to the Council of Ministers and then to Congress for approval". In this regard, he has said that the Department of Health is in a position to negotiate "everything that comes out of the Statutory Framework".
Farmers and farmers warn they will 'intensify' their mobilizations against a possible agreement between the EU and Mercosur
This has been announced by the President of Ataca, Raúl Beitia (an independent association of farmers and farmers in Treviño and Álava) on the second day of protest against the new Common Agricultural Policy. Half a hundred tractors have concentrated in front of the Basque Government in Vitoria before a new march will take them to the Subdelegation of the Government.
ELA criticizes the publication of the ambulance service without subrogating the staff
ELA has reported that the Gipuzkoa Territorial Health Delegation has decided to terminate the current contract and, from 7 January, to take direct responsibility for the management of the medicalized ambulances in Tolosa and Elgoibar, a service that currently employs 45 professionals among doctors, nurses and health transport technicians, who have reported that "their work is currently threatened".
Metal Group workers have mobilized against the closure of the Abadiño plant
Workers have concentrated in Berriz to denounce the closure of the Abadiño plant, which will leave 48 people unemployed, and the ERE (LEE) presented at the Legutiano plant, which provides for the dismissal of 91 of its 183 workers.