Finally there will be a strike by the hauliers’ employers. This Monday 14 November, from midnight, the Platform for the Defence of the Road Freight Transport Sector intends to bring the country to a standstill, just as it did for 20 days in March. And it is doing so on the eve of Black Friday and the Christmas campaign. To begin with, it has very little support and a great…

El Mundo headlines today: “The transport strike is overwhelming the government and putting the country’s supply chain in check”. “The government no longer supports the right to strike and calls the transport workers ‘radicals’”, underlines El Español. “The socialist law of pickets turns against the government in the radical transport strike” recalls the digital newspaper Vozpopuli.com… ArcelorMittal and Azucarera have decided to stop production. The dairy, steel and fishing industries…

The Government is facing a ‘hot’ end of the year in the face of demands being made by economic sectors as important to the Spanish economy as the countryside, the automotive industry and transport. They have already announced demonstrations in response to the problems their respective activities are going through. The Spanish economy is recovering the momentum it lost with the arrival of the pandemic. However, the global supply crisis…

Fernando González Urbaneja | The mayor of Cádiz has taken the lead in the incendiary protests his city is suffering with a striking statement: “We have had to set fire to Cádiz so that Madrid will take notice of us”. “Setting on fire” as a political practice is nothing new; there were times when it was common, with disastrous results. Here is a mayor with democratic legitimacy and with the…