Spain Is Experiencing Its First Nationwide General Strike In 14 Years

In Catalonia, protesters disrupted a live broadcast by storming the TV station's studio.

About forty masked people stormed the RTVE television studio in Catalonia, where the news program “El Cafè d'Idees,” hosted by journalist Jemma Niergi, was scheduled to air. The broadcast was scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m., but due to the intrusion, the program’s start had to be postponed, according to 20minutos.

The protesters stood in front of the cameras and unfurled a banner reading: “Life shouldn’t cost us our lives.” Their actions prevented the editorial staff from carrying out their work covering the events.

At 8:24 a.m., Nierga expressed her regret on social media platform X by posting a video. The journalist noted that the special broadcast was dedicated to the strike. “They prevented us from exercising our right to inform and your right to receive information,” she told the audience.

Sources at RTVE told 20minutos that the protesters left the studio after 9:00 a.m., after which the program resumed.

Today, November 11, Spain is experiencing its first general national strike in 14 years. The country’s two largest labor unions, CC. OO. and UGT, have called on workers to stop working under the slogan “Wages, Housing, Prices” due to falling purchasing power and an acute housing crisis.

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