Overview
- Organisers confirmed a 24-hour general strike for Wednesday, Nov. 11, led by CCOO, UGT, CGT, CNT and the Sindicato de Inquilinas to demand higher wages, relief from the rising cost of living and expanded housing protections.
- Transport authorities set legally required minimum services after Nov. 10 train-driver walkouts, ordering Cercanías to run 75% of trains in peak hours and 50% off-peak, Metro 80% peak and 50% off-peak, and reduced EMT and interurban bus schedules.
- Unions plan round-the-clock actions that begin with night-time pickets and early-morning rallies and culminate in a main 18:00 march from Atocha to Plaza de España, with municipal authorities warning of traffic cuts and major bus diversions.
- The central government has cleared ministers' public agendas as a show of respect while they continue internal work, and political parties and employer groups have sharply divided over the strike, calling it either legitimate social protest or an electoral maneuver.
- This is the first 24-hour union-backed general strike in Madrid in 14 years, born from the September eviction of 'Maricarmen', and it will test how far coordinated labour and tenant action can affect daily life, voter mobilization and votes on housing decrees in the days after the strike.