Spanish unions threaten general strike

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

MADRID, May 13 (Reuters) - Spain's unions threatened to call a general strike to protest austerity measures aimed at reducing the country's deficit back to EU guidelines and calming markets.

"We radically reject this austerity plan and both unions are starting protests that could lead to a general strike very soon," Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, the general secretary of Spain's biggest union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), told reporters on Thursday.

Earlier, the unions said they proposed calling a public sector strike for June 2, after Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Wednesday the government would cut civil servants salaries by an average 5 percent in 2010 and freeze them until 2011.

The strike would fall on the day before Madrid's Corpus Cristi public holiday ensuring maximum take-up by public servants in Spain's capital and leading to possible disruption in the travel plans of Spaniards over the long weekend.



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[Flaneur]

1. Rise up, Europe!

That's what the banner hanging on the Parthenon said last week.

Let it spread.

Maybe eventually the revolt against capital will spread across the sea.

[Vincardog]

2. WE need to support them there so we don't have to fight the banksters here

[doc03]

3. I see the seeds of another Great depression in the making n/t

[David__77]

4. Please note the communist unions of Europe are the ones defending the workers.

Unions like this one and the one in Greece. The working people are sick of the "third way" duopoly between right-wing social democrats and right-wing neo-liberals.

[Odin2005]

5. TO THE BARRICADES!!!

:woohoo: