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Spanish unions, Morenoite CRT sabotage Puerto Real Airbus workers’ struggle Last month, Airbus, the world’s largest airliner manufacturer, announced its intention to close one of its production facilities in southern Spain, the plant in Puerto Real. The closure is set to destroy nearly 2,000 direct and indirect jobs in an area already suffering 27 percent unemployment. The larger trade unions federations, Workers Commissions (CCOO) and General Workers Union (UGT), intervened claiming they would stop Airbus’ plans. In a matter of weeks, however, after a few token demonstrations and stopp...

Greek workers’ 24-hour strikes against draconian labour laws; stoppages in hospitals across France over pay and staff shortages; trade unions betray Spanish bank workers’ dispute, accept 2,700 job losses; Lesotho garment workers enter third week of pay strike.

Operating theatre nurses’ national one-day pay strike in France; Port Ravenna dockers in Italy ready to strike to block transport of military hardware for use against Gaza; national warning strikes by retail workers across Germany over pay; Stoppages at some UK schools and Liverpool University

The union bureaucracies are working hand in glove with the Spanish Socialist Party-Podemos government against the working class.

Podemos supports ending social distancing amid “fourth wave” in Spain The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government has announced that it will end the state of alarm on May 9. The state of alarm is the juridical mechanism regional governments use to impose obligatory social distancing measures, such as lockdowns, curfews, limitations on gatherings and mobility restrictions. Once presented as being less effective than nationwide lockdowns but more compatible with keeping workers on the job, the state of alarm is being ended as a signal that the ruling class seeks to lift any measur...