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Trade unions in Spain have called for a general strike on November 11 to protest rising rents and evictions, particularly after the eviction of an elderly woman in Madrid. The strike is backed by the country's two largest unions, UGT and CCOO, marking their first joint effort in 14 years. This action comes weeks before a snap election called by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez due to public discontent over housing issues; the average rental price in Spain is €1,176 per month, equivalent to nearly all of an average young person's monthly salary.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-07,
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Trade unions in Spain announced a nationwide general strike for November 11, focusing on housing issues, just weeks before a snap election scheduled for November 29. The two largest unions, UGT and CCOO, agreed to this date, marking the first joint effort by these unions since 2008. The protest is driven by growing concerns over rising rents and evictions, following recent events like the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called for early elections after parliament rejected decrees intended to curb evictions and control rent increases, aiming to shift political focus away from controversies involving his government’s handling of a migrant crisis in Ceuta.
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Spanish unions call general strike for November 11, weeks before snap election
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Trade unions in Spain on Wednesday announced a nationwide general strike over housing issues for November 11, a protest that will take place a few weeks before a snap election in which rising rents and evictions have become campaign topics.
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The country's two largest unions, UGT and CCOO, said they had agreed on the date, although it still needs to be formally ratified by other unions in a meeting later on Wednesday.
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It will be the first general strike jointly backed by Spain's two largest unions in 14 years.
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The strike will be the latest in a series of demonstrations provoked by the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid, with activists camping on one of the capital's main squares calling for solutions to a mounting housing crisis.
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Those protests, along with parliament's rejection last week of decrees aimed at curbing evictions and limiting rent pressures, prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call an early election for November 29.
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Sanchez is seeking to shift the political narrative from his government's handling of a migrant crisis in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta and a series of corruption cases involving his Socialist Party and his family to the housing crisis, an area in which he believes he can harness growing resentment about rising rents.
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Spain has a deficit of about 750,000 homes, which is set to grow to more than a million by 2028, according to the Bank of Spain.
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With fewer people able to afford a home, renting has increased sharply, putting pressure on that market.
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The average rental price of €1,176 ($1,315) is equivalent to about 98.7% of a young person's average monthly salary in Spain, according to the Youth Council of Spain.
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"We cannot ignore the fact that housing is where most of our wages go.
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What is the point of raising the minimum wage if housing costs are rising three, four or five times faster?" said Tenants' Union spokesperson Valeria Racu.
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