The follow-up to the general strike called this Friday throughout Spain by Solidaridad, the union arm of Vox, against the amnesty for those involved in the processes and the Government of Pedro Sánchez has an imperceptible result. One of the main parameters used to measure the effect of a strike on productive activity, electricity consumption, has not experienced significant changes. According to data from Red Eléctrica, electricity consumption at 8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. this Friday was slightly above that recorded last Friday and was similar to that of a year ago.
The organizing union itself has not provided monitoring data on the strike by sectors or companies and has limited itself to disseminating videos of the pickets sent to provoke the headquarters of the PSOE and the UGT in Madrid and the Workers’ Commissions in Cornellá (Barcelona), which which has caused tense situations and forced the police to intervene. It so happens that Vox has been the toughest party with the picketing action and in the past has requested that they be criminally prosecuted and that they could not act outside the workplace or during strike days.
This is how the union parasites receive us when we have reminded them that they are sell-outs.
We repeat that since @solidaridad_esp we do not cower. We are free, national and union, like the workers of Spain. 🫵🇪🇦 pic.twitter.com/XfaQ6X8zoJ
— Pablo González Gasca (@PabloGzlGasca) November 24, 2023
Recovering in health, the general secretary of Solidarity and Vox deputy, Rodrigo Alonso, assured on Wednesday that those released from CC OO and UGT were coercing workers who wanted to go on strike and threatened to denounce them and “put them on the bench.” He did not want to mention, however, any company where these coercions had occurred.
“The monitoring of the Solidarity strike is zero people,” indicated a spokesperson for Renfe, where the unions called off five days of strike on Thursday afternoon to protest the transfer of the Rodalies trains to the Generalitat of Catalonia, reports Efe. In the General State Administration it has also had almost no echo, with only two workers on strike out of the 4,782 on the night shift.
The strike has not had an impact on the educational system either, according to sources from public schools, subsidized education, regional educational administrations and family federations. In Andalusia, for example, the Ministry of Education has put the number of teachers on strike at 71 out of almost 108,000 in public education, that is, 0.07%. A spokesperson for Catholic Schools, the main employer of subsidized education, affirms, in the absence of data, that “the feeling is of normality,” and a regional official from the same organization assures that in his territory it is not having “any impact.” . The directors of public institutes from various autonomous communities offer similar responses. Only one, from Madrid, claims that at its center around 5% of the students have supported the strike, all of them from Baccalaureate and Vocational Training (although they suspect that it was more like “to study for next week’s exams”), and no teachers. , informs Ignacio Zafra. There has also been no significant follow-up in university education, despite the fact that Revuelta, Vox’s youth front, had called for a “general student strike.” The situation this Friday was normal at the Complutense University or the Autonomous University of Madrid or even in private centers owned by Catholic entities such as the CEU-San Pablo or the Francisco de Vitoria, reports Elisa Silió.
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Those who have gone on strike, following instructions from the Vox leadership, are their public officials, such as their municipal group in the Valencia City Council, although without being absent from plenary sessions and government board meetings “so as not to harm the voters,” according to sources the party. It is not clear if they will be deducted from the strike day like the workers.
Solidaridad has not managed to get any union or social organization outside of Vox to join its general strike. The Independent Trade Union Center and Civil Servants (CSIF) ruled it out after receiving a FAX in which it was invited to do so and the Association of Young Farmers and Ranchers (Asaje) maintained contacts with Solidaridad, but did not decide to support the strike. Both organizations, which have been critical of Pedro Sánchez’s pacts with the independentists, have about 200,000 adherents each.
Solidaridad claims to have 250 union delegates, although the Ministry of Labor only has 170; In any case, less than 0.1% of the almost 300,000 in Spain. It is more difficult to know how many affiliates it has. Solidaridad assures that there are more than 16,000. However, at its annual meeting last year only 140 voted, even though they could do so electronically. In this year’s event, the union has no longer reported how many members have participated.
Solidaridad is the most opaque of the organizations that make up the Vox network. Unlike the UGT and the Workers’ Commissions, which it continually accuses of corruption, the Vox union has not made its accounts public since it was created in 2020, despite the fact that its general secretary promised to audit them, put them on the transparency and at the disposal of the Court of Auditors.
In reality, not even union members have the accounts at their disposal, but must request them in writing from the general secretary, in person or by registered mail, before the assembly at which they are approved. EL PAÍS has formally requested the accounts of the financial years already closed without obtaining a response so far.
Although initially there were doubts about the legality of the general strike – given its political nature and the lack of representativeness of the calling union -, the Ministry of Labor has accepted it, after requesting that formal defects in the initial document be corrected. The department headed by Yolanda Díaz alleges that “in Spain, legally constituted union organizations can call a strike,” even if they are a minority, “because the regulation is very respectful of that right.” Among other precedents, the feminist strike called by the CNT on March 8, 2018 is cited.
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