The political struggle of the working class in Spain
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- Spanish trade unions call for strike ahead of
the European summit in Seville
- Agence Frence presse, Thursday 23 May 2002. Spain's
main labor unions on Thursday called a general strike to
protest proposed unemployment benefit reforms for June 20, a
day before Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is to preside
over a European summit in Seville.
- More than enough reasons! General
strike!
- Confederación General del Trabajo, 22 June 2002. The
Reform of Unemployment Protection and the Employment Law
imposed by the government means yet another attack on the
working class in general and in particular on the most
disadvantaged social groups: the unemployed and those with
unstable employment. With this reform the PP, the
conservative party, is taking giant steps towards making the
job market even more precarious.
- United to face challenges
- By Iban Ocio & Aitziber Laskibar, Berria,
21 February 2004. The ELA and LAB trade unions warned that
the Basque Country was “in need of a national strategy
in favour of self-determination”, and they, too, would
be fighting together from that moment onwards, because unity
gave them “greater strength”
- Thousands protest as Spanish shipyard tension
spreads
- Agence France presse, 27 September 2004. Tens of thousands
of Spanish shipyard workers demonstrated at this
northwestern port to demand action to save yards threatened
with bankruptcy. Union leaders are spearheading a campaign
to shelve a plan to introduce some private finance into the
yards and cut back a workforce of 10,700.