{"id":5979,"date":"2012-11-16T04:50:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T09:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2018-08-07T05:01:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:01:30","slug":"the-first-iberian-general-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/the-first-iberian-general-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Iberian general strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hace dos d\u00edas tuvimos huelga general en Espa\u00f1a, al igual que en otros pa\u00edses europeos \u00a0como Portugal, Italia o Grecia. Los peri\u00f3dicos escribieron sobre la primera huelga general ib\u00e9rica, ya que ambos pa\u00edses de la pen\u00ednsula decidieron paralizarse por un d\u00eda. La gente sali\u00f3 en manifestaciones en pr\u00e1cticamente todas las ciudades, algunos no fueron a trabajar (los que a\u00fan tienen trabajo, claro), algunas tiendas y negocios cerraron, y todo ello para protestar contra las \u00faltimas medidas de nuestro gobierno, reduciendo derechos fundamentales relacionados con educaci\u00f3n y sanidad, y contra algunos requisitos europeos relacionados con esta crisis financiera que est\u00e1 devastando algunos pa\u00edses en Europa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La huelga fue convocada por los dos sindicatos mayoritarios, UGT (Uni\u00f3n General de Trabajadores) y CCOO (Comisiones Obreras), y personas de peque\u00f1os pueblos y ciudades marcharon a las capitales como protesta. Hubo tambi\u00e9n piquetes, intentando informar y evitar que gente no demasiado convencida por esta forma de presi\u00f3n (la huelga), fuese a trabajar, y se les uniese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Como en cualquier manifestaci\u00f3n social, es divertido leer las estad\u00edsticas tras ellas, dependiendo de qui\u00e9n publica la cantidad de gente involucrada: seg\u00fan la patronal, tan solo un 12% de la poblaci\u00f3n se sum\u00f3 a la huelga, pero si leemos los n\u00fameros de los sindicatos, se elevan hasta un 76%. Es una pena que hubiese incidentes violentos, como suele pasar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Todo esto me ha\u00a0 llevado a preguntarme si hay sindicatos en todos los pa\u00edses, y sobre todo, si se organizan de la misma forma. O c\u00f3mo se llevan a cabo las huelgas en distintos lugares, porque es seguro que hay diferencias. Nuestra principal arma es no trabajar; por el contrario, los japoneses hacen lo opuesto: trabajan m\u00e1s horas para saturar el mercado de productos. Ser\u00eda muy interesante saber sobre vuestros pa\u00edses, si os apetece compartir esa informaci\u00f3n con nosotros.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two days ago we had a general strike in Spain, as well as in some other European countries such as Portugal, Italy or Greece. Newspapers wrote about the first Iberian general strike, as both countries in the peninsula decided to stop for one day. People went on demonstrations in almost every single city, some people didn\u2019t go to work (the ones who still have a job, obviously) some shops and business were closed, and all that as a protest against our government latest policies, reducing some of our fundamental rights concerning education and health, and against some European requirements concerning this financial crisis that is devastating some countries in Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strike was organized by the two major labor unions, UGT (General Union of Workers) and CCOO (Communist Labor Union), and people from small towns and villages went to the capital cities to protest. \u00a0There were also a lot of pickets, trying to inform and prevent people not convinced by this pressure method (strike) to go to work, and join them.<\/p>\n<p>As in any other social manifestation, it is funny to read the statistics after them, depending on who published the amount of people involved: according to the employers, there was only a 12% of the population who joined the strike, but if we read the labor unions numbers, it goes up to 76%. It is a pity that there had been some violent incidents, as usual.\u00a0<strong>You can see images of the stike in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/politica.elpais.com\/politica\/2012\/11\/14\/album\/1352911670_729799.html#1352911670_729799_1352922193\">El Pais,<\/a> a Spanish newspaper.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hace dos d\u00edas tuvimos huelga general en Espa\u00f1a, al igual que en otros pa\u00edses europeos \u00a0como Portugal, Italia o Grecia. Los peri\u00f3dicos escribieron sobre la primera huelga general ib\u00e9rica, ya que ambos pa\u00edses de la pen\u00ednsula decidieron paralizarse por un d\u00eda. La gente sali\u00f3 en manifestaciones en pr\u00e1cticamente todas las ciudades, algunos no fueron a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/the-first-iberian-general-strike\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[358362],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11821,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}