Overview
- CIG-Ensino, backed by STEG, staged a one-day strike to protest what it calls the precarious situation of teachers and to press for restored pre-2011 lective hours, lower class sizes, more specialized staff, higher salaries and less paperwork.
- An order published in the Diario Oficial de Galicia required all public schools to open, designating management teams as minimum staff and allowing a teaching post to cover one slot in smaller centres.
- Unions reported strike follow-up above 60%, while the Xunta’s official figure was 14.8%, leaving the scale of participation in dispute.
- Schools operated without normal classes in many cases as directors supervised pupils under the minimum-service rule, with reports of this situation in multiple Vigo centres.
- Education chief Román Rodríguez defended the system’s progress and criticized CIG’s “confrontation” strategy, as unions in the Valencian Community announced demonstrations on 8 November and a proposed 20 November strike pending ratification.