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Volkswagen plans to freeze the salaries of its more than 660,000 employees until 2030 and cut 100,000 jobs, which has generated strong opposition from unions warning about the loss of purchasing power and labor tensions in collective bargaining negotiations in Spain. #Volkswagen #congelaciónsalarial #sindicatos (translated)

The unions have registered a general strike for November 11, demanding the right to decent housing and an increase in the minimum wage, in response to the housing access crisis and following the eviction of Maricarmen. #HuelgaGeneral #DerechoALaVivienda #MovilizaciónSocial (translated)

The massive protests in France, driven by students, unions, and the 'Yellow Vests', have erupted over discontent due to the lack of resources in schools and the rise in inflation, leading to riots and violence in the streets. #ProtestasFrancia #ChalecosAmarillos #MalestarSocial (translated)

The Portuguese government is in negotiations with public sector unions to update the salaries of employees in 2027, proposing a salary increase of 2.30% and a minimum of 60.52 euros, while the unions are demanding higher increases, citing the acceleration of inflation. #FunçãoPública #Salários #Negociação (translated)

The workers' unions of the Spanish Consulate in Caracas warn that it will be impossible to vote at the provisional headquarters of Quinta Marmolejo due to inadequate security conditions and lack of internet connectivity, despite the fact that more than 130,000 registered Spaniards in Venezuela rely on this location to participate in the elections on November 29. #VotoExterior #Caracas #Elecciones2026 (translated)

The government of Pedro Sánchez has almost quadrupled direct aid to the unions UGT and CC.OO., increasing the subsidies from 8.8 million euros during Mariano Rajoy's era to 32 million today, while these unions maintain their loyalty to the executive amid various political and social controversies. #Sindicatos #HuelgaGeneral #AyudasDirectas (translated)

France has taken to the streets. What started as students protesting against cuts in education has turned into a protest against the cost of living and the deterioration of public services, with unions and workers behind it. The fascists will not pass! #Marseille #October17 📹 @confrontfr (translated)

The mobilization for housing in Madrid strengthens through the Union Process of Housing Collectives of Madrid (Pucvm), which brings together various unions and neighborhood assemblies to address the housing crisis in a coordinated and effective manner. #Vivienda #Madrid #Desahucios (translated)

Sarah Santaolalla wrote that, after the frustration over the lack of unity on the left, there were also reasons to remember that it went far beyond its leaders. She placed it in squares, neighborhoods, community associations, unions, and social movements, and among those who defended public services and rights, including feminists and people who opposed homophobia and the far-right. Santaolalla said that many people were willing to organize and mobilize, because they believed there was too much at stake to stay on the sidelines. She added that the left was built collectively and from below, and closed with the slogan "They shall not pass." #IzquierdaUnida #Activismo #Unidad (translated)

Mario Di Costanzo considered it outrageous that the unions did not demand action regarding the lack of medications, supplies, and care in the IMSS. He added that their representatives were upset when they were called "charro" leaders, as Pedro Haces wrote. #IMSS #Salud #Sindicatos (translated)

The article by Susana Quadrado questions the effectiveness and true motives of the general strike called for November 11, suggesting that the unions have strayed from their main mission and that the mobilization lacks a clear interlocutor just a few days before the general elections in Spain. #HuelgaGeneral #DerechosLaborales #CrisisVivienda (translated)

The focus of criticism from the PP has not only been on the magnitude of this wealth - Isabel Díaz Ayuso even went so far as to say in an obvious exaggeration that she had more wealth than Amazon owner Jeff Bezos - but also on the contradictions highlighted by the opposition and tenant unions, since the business structure would have executed, according to the information that has emerged, evictions for non-payment, a practice strongly questioned from the official discourse of the Government regarding housing. #PSOE #MontseMínguez #Política (translated)

Stereo Hodler said he did not know if PregoneroL would insult him, but he considered it a moral obligation to acknowledge that he had given him the idea of measuring municipal employees. He added that other people shared the initiative and could organize into a union called GordoSistemas, with the purpose of making life difficult for the Kirchnerists, whom he accused of having done the same for 20 years. #sindicatos #empleados #organización (translated)

The Madrid Metro unions deny President Ayuso's claims, who alleged that they had requested the closure of the Sol station due to unhealthiness, stating that they have made no such request and criticizing the lack of communication regarding the measurements that would justify the closure. #MetroDeMadrid #Ayuso #Sindicatos (translated)

The third day of the indefinite strike of teachers in the Community of Madrid continues with significant support and is preparing for a second demonstration between Atocha and Puerta del Sol, while the unions insist on the need to improve working conditions. #HuelgaEducativa #Madrid #EducaciónPública (translated)

"I have just been informed that we will have to close the Sol Metro station because urgent cleaning and safety work needs to be done, starting with the workers of Metro de Madrid. This has been requested by occupational risk prevention and the unions." The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced this Friday the temporary closure of the Sol Metro station to carry out urgent cleaning and safety work "due to the unsanitary conditions" recorded in the Madrid subway after almost... twenty days of camping at Kilómetro Cero. #CierreEstaciónSol #InsalubridadMadrid #AcampadaPuertaDelSol (translated)