Strike in spain
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this is the most recent info I can find - googletranslate does a pretty good job if you don't read Spanish
Cómo te afectan los servicios mínimos de la huelga general del 29M - Huelga - Trabajo - Practicopedia.com
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Iberia and its subsidiary have cancelled 424 flights on Thursday and RENFE have cancelled 600 trains. Lots of bus services won't be running either.
Iberia y Air Nostrum cancelan 424 vuelos por la huelga general del 29-M | Economía | EL PAÍS
Iberia y Air Nostrum cancelan 424 vuelos por la huelga general del 29-M | Economía | EL PAÍS
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A separate strike, nothing to do with 29M - Iberia pilots are planning to strike every Monday and Friday between April and July.
Los pilotos de Iberia harán huelga todos los lunes y viernes de abril a julio | Economía | EL PAÍS
In English:
http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/03/27/inenglish/1332853078_258718.html
Los pilotos de Iberia harán huelga todos los lunes y viernes de abril a julio | Economía | EL PAÍS
In English:
http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/03/27/inenglish/1332853078_258718.html
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Oh well, that should help create jobs and give a boost to the struggling economy...
We need to get this deficit down and then ensure that never again are we taken for a ride by snake-oil salespeople with their sleek, empty promises. Strikes won't help. Elected Governments shouldn't be coerced by action from one relatively small sector of society.
It took a war to bring in a half-way decent welfare state in the UK. This economic crisis is low-intensity war with different weapons: pay freezes, public sector job cuts, cuts to essential public services....
There is sadly no alternative to deficit and debt reduction policies but if when all is resolved we allow any Government to take us back to the status quo ante we will be out of our tiny minds.
Just as the privations of war made my mother's generation determined to see a sea change in the lives of ordinary people so we should ensure that after the sadly necessary austerity is over and balance restored we too see a radical change in our philosophy not only of the economics of government but of the whole ethos of our society.
We need to get this deficit down and then ensure that never again are we taken for a ride by snake-oil salespeople with their sleek, empty promises. Strikes won't help. Elected Governments shouldn't be coerced by action from one relatively small sector of society.
It took a war to bring in a half-way decent welfare state in the UK. This economic crisis is low-intensity war with different weapons: pay freezes, public sector job cuts, cuts to essential public services....
There is sadly no alternative to deficit and debt reduction policies but if when all is resolved we allow any Government to take us back to the status quo ante we will be out of our tiny minds.
Just as the privations of war made my mother's generation determined to see a sea change in the lives of ordinary people so we should ensure that after the sadly necessary austerity is over and balance restored we too see a radical change in our philosophy not only of the economics of government but of the whole ethos of our society.
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Some more information on areas where agreement has been reached re provision of local services:
CC OO y UGT se desvinculan de los servicios mínimos de ocho comunidades | Política | EL PAÍS
CC OO y UGT se desvinculan de los servicios mínimos de ocho comunidades | Política | EL PAÍS
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My flight isn't cancelled, for the moment at least!
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Everything crossed for you! At least you're going in the right direction and won't face any onward travel problems, I see they are seriously limiting access to the airports for taxis, buses, etc.My flight isn't cancelled, for the moment at least!
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Yes, but I've got a secret weapon called Mr. Pesky Wesky
.My flight may experience some problems, or even be cancelled in the end, but I did notice on other air company websites that there were very few cancelled flights to the UK. In fact those that were cancelled, were all to London airports I think
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Uhhmmm, he doesn't know.
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All supermarkets, shops and petrol stations open in this area. So far very little closed it seems, apart from my Mother's hairdresser who closed because she feared she would be fined if she opened. Not sure who she thinks would fine her but methinks it was simply an excuse to have a day off. She's British, btw.
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TAP have cancelled most of their flights into Spain today
Portugals TAP cancels most Spanish flights for Thursday due general strike. TAP/Air Portugal has canceled more than half its scheduled flights into and out of Spain on Thursday due to a planned general strike in its Iberian neighbor, a TAP official said.
Portugals TAP cancels most Spanish flights for Thursday due general strike. TAP/Air Portugal has canceled more than half its scheduled flights into and out of Spain on Thursday due to a planned general strike in its Iberian neighbor, a TAP official said.
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the schools are open here but not with full staff & the kids could stay off with parental permission
don't know about shops - I'm in bed with flu
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Look after yourself xabiachica!the schools are open here but not with full staff & the kids could stay off with parental permission
don't know about shops - I'm in bed with flu
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Keep warm ....it's cold and windy here today.the schools are open here but not with full staff & the kids could stay off with parental permission
don't know about shops - I'm in bed with flu
Not much movig here...but then our village is always quiet, dozy even, except for a brief interlude between around six and seven in the evening when people emerge into the streets and cafes..then all is quiet again, even in summer...
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PP gets social over General Strike
From the Guardian Live feed on the general strike.
11.09am: Our Madrid correspondent Giles Tremlett reports that Spanish police seem upset about a suggestion by the governing People's party (PP) of prime minister Mariano Rajoy that social networks should be used to denounce illegal picketing or violence in today's general strike.
He writes:
So I guess, if nothing else, we could say that Esperanza Aguirre is trying to connect via more modern means and use it to the PPs advantage.
Pity she was nearly a year too late and decided to act with a heavy hand rather than actually socialize. But that's The Countess of Murillo for you
From the Guardian Live feed on the general strike.
11.09am: Our Madrid correspondent Giles Tremlett reports that Spanish police seem upset about a suggestion by the governing People's party (PP) of prime minister Mariano Rajoy that social networks should be used to denounce illegal picketing or violence in today's general strike.
He writes:
I would say that she has been watching what happened last summer in the UK and trying to turn it to her advantage.
So I guess, if nothing else, we could say that Esperanza Aguirre is trying to connect via more modern means and use it to the PPs advantage.
Pity she was nearly a year too late and decided to act with a heavy hand rather than actually socialize. But that's The Countess of Murillo for you
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