Labor conflict

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 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.

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.

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".

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 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".

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.

CESM and ASM have accused the Ministry of Health of "dynamizing" the dialogue.

Tomorrow, Monday, the stops will begin, but without mobilization, but on Tuesday and Thursday there will be rallies at 14:15, with shift changes outside the factory.

Today they held a rally in front of the Prince of Viana Advisory Centre. As the doctors of the Health System call for officials, they do not claim their own status as the rest of the state doctors, but like them they demand an improvement in conditions, an end to 24-hour guards, a reduction in the number of weekly hours of work and sufficient rest time, among others. 

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 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 stoppages will take place from 15 to 18 December, as workers believe the factory's "labour relations have deteriorated." The three main unions report that management has failed to comply with the decisions taken.

Hundreds of doctors and physicians (pharmacists, biologists...), many dressed in white robes, have demonstrated in Bilbao against the draft Framework Statute Act presented by the Spanish Ministry and in favour of one that reflects its peculiarities, and have asked the Basque Government to defend its demands before Minister Monica García.

Esan has explained that in the first ten months of the year an additional 375,000 hours have been made, "with an expenditure of between 8 and 9 million euros", which demonstrates "a system artificially sustained by permanent reinforcements" and "a model that relentlessly presses the ertzainas."

The departments of Ambulances and Emergencies of the ESK union have concentrated this morning before the Basque Parliament to demand the publicity of health transport because '100% public health transport is necessary for all'.

The self-schools in Navarre are in a serious situation due to the collapse of the driving licence exams. They have indicated that 8,200 people are waiting for the examination. Waiting times have increased dramatically, which has practically paralysed the activity of the self-schools, with the risk of ERTE and closure. That is why they are mobilizing. 

The UGT union, which has seven out of seventeen representatives on the works council, is prepared to accept the proposals of the company and the Commonwealth of the Region of Pamplona, and urges the rest to act responsibly to end the labour dispute.

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.