UGT has calculated provisionally that around 44 or 45 percent of the workers in the Cantabrian industry have backed the general strike called this Wednesday, November 11.
The figure has been made known by the Organization Secretary of UGT Cantabria, Valentín Fernández, in statements to the media during his participation in the information pickets that, since first thing, have been going around the streets of Santander in connection with the stoppage, which for the moment is proceeding in a "calm" manner and without any "special" incident having occurred.
In light of the information gathered from companies in the industrial sector, Fernández considers that "the strike is being backed" in this productive area.
As he has detailed, UGT and CCOO have "coordinated" their pickets and, until now, the "largest" has been concentrated in the depots of the municipal buses in Santander, the TUS, where some departures of the "significant" minimum services that have been established were delayed, he pointed out.
Although no incidents of serious nature have been recorded in this picket, some of its participants have said that certain moments of "tension" with the Police were experienced.
For the moment, the organizations that called the strike continue to wait to compile the monitoring data of the strike in healthcare, education, public-sector staff, and employees of public administrations such as the Government of Cantabria.
No figures on participation in commerce have been provided yet either, an area in which, as Fernández has pointed out, there is always "greater difficulty" in joining the strike due to the situation of "precariousness" affecting a large part of the workers in this sector.