Spain’s two largest unions call a nationwide 24-hour strike over housing and costs
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Spain’s Comisiones Obreras and UGT unions start a 24-hour general strike at midnight on Wednesday under the slogan wages, housing, prices. Transport, schools, healthcare and flights face disruption, with essential minimum services maintained. The walkout follows Madrid’s September eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, 87, after a corporate landlord raised her rent; she later died, and the episode fuelled protests and snap elections on 29 November. The unions last held a joint general strike in 2012.
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