The general strike this Wednesday is having a very uneven impact on the main industrial plants in Galicia. First thing in the morning, the unions are talking about total compliance of 100% at the Alcoa San Cibrao factory in the night and morning shifts, compared with support of 20% in the night shift at Stellantis Vigo.
As union sources explained to Europa Press, at Alcoa the call was followed by the entire workforce in the shifts mentioned, after information pickets were positioned at the entrances to the plant during the night and the start of the working day.
Meanwhile, at Stellantis Vigo the reality was different. The night shift ran with "normality" and with a "notably" low follow-through on the strike, which other union sources put at around 20%.
"In the morning there was much more follow-through than at night," indicate these same sources, who for the moment do not have specific percentage data for the morning shift. In the automobile plant there were also pickets from before even 00:00 hours this Wednesday.
Nevertheless, this morning there were indeed "incidents" at the Balaídos plant, which remained shut down at first thing, as union representatives detail. With everything, they recall that System 1 was already stopped due to lack of components, so only about half of the plant is operating.
"That already has a productive impact, although not as a consequence of the strike, but it also has an impact on the company's possibilities of covering the jobs of striking workers. That is one of the issues that we are going to monitor and, if necessary, we will denounce the breach of the right to strike," a union has concluded.
At the same time, Comisiones Obreras has highlighted "significant" support for the strike across all of Galicia. According to its estimates, in the industrial sector participation is around 70%, with factories "paralyzed" in the "practical entirety," such as Navantia Ferrol, GKN Driveline in Vigo, and the canneries Profand and DS Smith in Vilagarcía.