The November 11 general strike in the Basque Country has gained a broader declared social coalition. A manifesto presented on Monday brings in environmental, international-cooperation, health and migrant- and refugee-rights organisations. That matters because it moves the strike’s public case beyond workplace demands alone, tying wages, housing and public services together.
El Salto names Greenpeace Euskadi, Oxfam Intermón and Economistas sin Fronteras among the signatories, alongside CCOO de Euskadi, UGT-Euskadi, Mundubat, Osalde, Zehar Errefuxiatuekin and other associations. The manifesto argues that a job and a wage no longer necessarily allow people to make ends meet, secure housing or plan for the future.
Its political argument is straightforward: insecurity does not stop at the workplace gate. The new supporters place the rising cost of living, housing access and inequality in the same frame as pay rises and recovering purchasing power. Greenpeace Euskadi-Navarra links its support to a just ecosocial transition, while Economistas sin Fronteras argues that housing’s social function should take precedence over profitability.
The expanded list of supporters does not, by itself, establish how many people will join the strike or how extensive any work stoppage will be. The available report also does not provide a full response from employers, governments or every organiser. It does document a concrete development ahead of November 11, however: groups outside strictly workplace unionism have publicly joined their demands to the mobilisation.
Whether that wider framing produces greater mobilisation remains to be seen in the action itself. For now, the manifesto broadens the declared alliance and gives the strike a more ambitious social case than an isolated wage dispute.
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- El Salto · Edición General · Source date: 2026-11-09
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