Pimec, the Catalan employers’ association for small and medium-sized businesses, has described as “low follow-up” the impact of this Wednesday morning’s general strike in Catalonia, estimating that only 8.9% of workers have supported it, although 29% of companies have been affected in some way.
As the business organization sets out in a statement, “Almost half” of the affected companies have no one on strike, while 31.8% have suffered problems with the movement of their workforces, with incidents affecting mobility and arrival at workplaces.
The employers’ entity has reiterated that it respects and “has defended the legitimate right to strike,” but at the same time it denounces that the obstacles to access jobs “are also violating the right to work and to people’s mobility”.
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