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Spain’s main labor unions, CCOO and UGT, plan to call a general strike for
November 14 to protest the government’s austerity drive, just eight months after
the last country-wide stoppage.
The stoppage will be formally called at a top level meeting on Friday. This
will be the first time two general strikes have been held in the same year. A
meeting will also be held of the so-called Social Summit, which groups together
some 200 social organizations opposed to the government’s economic policies.
The decision to go ahead with the stoppage came just hours after the European
Trade Union Confederation called for strikes and demonstrations against the
belt-tightening movement in Europe on November 14.
The Portuguese union CGTP has called for a national strike on November 14,
while stoppages are also expected in Cyprus and Greece.
CCOO and UGT sources said the proposal to hold a pan-European mobilization
came from the Spanish labor unions which have been in talks on the issue with
their Portuguese counterparts since a few months back.
The strike will coincide with campaigning for regional elections in Catalonia
on November 25. CCOO and UGT have never previously called for a general strike
during election periods.
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