Thousands of citizen bus drivers, social platforms and environmentalist, feminist and in defense of the LGTBIQ+ collective associations have joined the 24-hour general strike called for next 11 November, as this Friday has been communicated by Comisiones Obreras.
Among the organizations that have conveyed their support are the Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado (CEAR), the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), the Federación Estatal LGTBI+, the Fundación Pedro Zerolo, the Comisión 8M, Greenpeace, Amigas de la Tierra, Juventud por el Clima, Facua, CECU and Intermón Oxfam, among many others.
To this support have also been added the Confederación Estatal de Asociaciones Vecinales, the Alianza Ciudadana por la Sanidad Pública, the Federación de Asociaciones para la Defensa de la Sanidad Pública, the Consejo de la Juventud de España, the Coordinadora de Representantes de Estudiantes de Universidades Públicas and numerous associations of mothers and fathers of students (AMPA) spread throughout the territory.
The general secretaries of CCOO and UGT, Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez, held a meeting this week with dozens of spokespeople from civil society organizations to hear their demands and move forward on the coordination of initiatives and actions prior to the strike day, with the aim of continuing to broaden support and publicize the reasons for the call.
CCOO has underlined that this broad support is explained by the existence of problems that affect the majority of society, such as insufficient wages in the face of the high cost of living and difficulties in accessing decent housing, both under a homeownership and rental arrangement.
International backing for the call
The strike has also received backing from international trade union organizations such as the Confederación Europea de Sindicatos, the Pan European Trade Union Council and IndustriAll European Trade Union.
Likewise, the Association of Moroccan Workers and Immigrants, SICSAL and the European Association of Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict, among other entities, have made their support public.
On the other hand, the Confederación de Sindicatos de Inquilinas (CSI) has also indicated this Friday that more than 20,000 civil society organizations back the strike, to which neighborhood associations, feminist movements, pensioners and students, environmentalist organizations and groups linked to the field of culture and the countryside have joined.