PSOE seeks Constitutional guarantee for social rights
► PSOE prioritizes LGBTI rights, church-state separation, death with dignity ► Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) has released a working paper on a…
Labour & Unemployment
Taxis threaten further strike action over Uber, Cabify
• Protests over Supreme Court go-ahead to thousands of so-called VTC licenses • Taxis claim unfair competition from excessive number of Uber,…
Pilar Bardem honored with ‘Film, Aid & Solidarity’ award
• ‘Academia de Cine’ cites decades of combining activism with TV, film career • Goya winner Bardem is also mother of actors…
PSOE reaches accord with CCOO & UGT trade unions
• Repeal of ‘labour reforms’ by PP in 2012 & Zapatero in 2010 high priorities • PSOE, unions to focus on measures…
Socialists pull support for EU-Canada free-trade deal
• PSOE reverses position on free-trade accord, now says it won’t vote for CETA • Socialist ‘No’ vote or abstention on trade…
Unidos Podemos can’t stop CETA trade deal in Congress
• PP, PSOE, other parties vote to move ahead with EU-Canada free-trade deal • Accord to cut 98pct of tariffs, settle disputes…
UGT & CCOO begin rolling labour protests Thursday
• Unions to protest PP ‘intransigence’ in negotiating labour law changes • Three-days of rallies, marches to culminate in Sunday demo in…
Spain falling on annual EU-wide social justice index
• Children, adolescents at most risk of social exclusion from poverty, report says • Despite signs of recovery, Spain has second-highest youth…
Starting today, women in Spain working for free
• UGT says women work 54 days more than men for same annual earnings • Union launches #YoTrabajoGratis (‘I Work for Free’)…
CCOO’s Toxo pegs PSOE crisis to 2010 Zapatero cuts
• Socialist PM Zapatero’s austerity cuts angered voters, began slide in support • Labour leader fears PSOE crisis could trigger ‘long rightwing…
EU Court ruling to benefit Spain healthcare workers
• Court says Spain tries to use ‘temporary’ contracts to deny workers benefits • Ruling seen as boon to ‘temp’ healthcare workers…
Women, youth, over-45s still struggling to find work
• Red Cross says nearly a third of workers aged 45-plus still unable to find jobs • Long-term unemployed have benefited least…
Greenpeace scales Madrid towers to protest TTIP
• Greenpeace activists unfurl banner calling for halt to EU-US TTIP trade deal • Action follows on Greenpeace Netherlands’ leak of TTIP…
#VIDEO: Unions avow general strike over labour law
• Tens of thousands in ‘May Day’ marches in Madrid, Barcelona and other cities • Leadership threatens general strike if 2012 labour…
One in five women jobless in Spain, comprising nearly 25% of total European female unemployment
• UGT says women suffer multiple disadvantages in Spanish job market • Spain’s female jobless rate is today among the highest in…
Spain’s wage gap of 24% between men and women continues to rise, reaching highest level in six years
• Report release coincides with today’s nationwide ‘Day for Wage Equality’ • Spain continues to lag other European countries that are reducing…
Judge acquits Airbus 8, citing ‘lack of evidence’ of violence on picket line during 2010 general strike
• Unions cite 300 similar cases pending under Franco-era anti-strike law • A Spanish judge has acquitted eight union members of charges…
Thousands march in Getafe, Madrid and other cities in support of ‘Airbus 8’ strikers on first day of trial
• Labour leaders, politicians join marchers in national ‘right to strike’ protest • Labour leaders and politicians from Spain’s principal left-wing parties…
January employment figures buoyed by short-term contracts, unions say labour market still precarious
• Low increase in unemployed in January, but Spain’s jobless rate still 20.8% • Relatively positive unemployment figures for January released by…
CCOO to campaign to raise 655 euro monthly minimum wage, guarantee affordable rental housing
• Focus on rise in 655 euros/month min wage, defense of pensions levels • Spain’s largest labour union, the Comisiones Obreras (Workers’…
CCOO leader says unemployment numbers positive, but new jobs creation far from 2007 pre-crisis levels
• Fernández Toxo says it will take until 2021 to return to pre-crisis job levels • Says anemic recovery built on ‘highly…
Report says Extremadura’s youth face high levels of unemployment, poverty-level wages in unstable jobs
• Spanish Youth Council report says 2/3 of Extremadura’s young unemployed • Nearly all new jobs filled by youth are unstable, temporary-contract…
Gov’t, unions worry about impact of Abengoa bankrupcty on Spanish economy, labour market
• Creditors say solar, wind powerhouse’s debt level exceeds 9 bn euros • Spanish renewables giant employs 7,000 in Spain and 28,000…
Spain’s slow economic recovery falls 25,000 jobs short of employment levels when Rajoy took office
• November jobless figures show year-on-year improvement • But, numbers still shy of replacing 1.5 mn jobs lost since Rajoy took office…
Greenpeace, Oxfam & Amnesty fault Spain’s political parties for foot-dragging on social rights
• NGOs want universal access to basic rights enshrined in Constitution • Political parties get poor marks in commitment to healthcare, housing…
EU index sees child poverty on rise in Spain, despite return to economic growth
• Annual AROPE index shows those ‘At Risk of Poverty and/or Exclusion’ • 2.6 million Spanish children at risk, second highest among…
Labour force survey shows stagnating salaries and growing inequities, despite claims of recovery
• Spain’s wage gap between lowest, highest earners continues to grow • Nearly 3 million Spaniards earn less than €1,000 per month,…
Socialist party seeks kinder, gentler labour reforms in appeal to both workers and business
• Socialists treading fine line between labour and business • PSOE sees voter concerns over unemployment key to election victory Spain’s opposition…