GENERAL STRIKE IS IT WORTH?

Yesterday, 29th of March in Spain, all the unions like UGT and CCOO organised a General Strike. They went out to the streets of the main cities to attempt to claim a negotiation of the new Labour Reform that the government of Rajoy declared.

Official poster of the strike where it says:
"No to labour reform of cheap layoffs",
"General Strike, I go."
(29th of March of 2012).

The realization of this General Strike was good because people wanted to express themselves because they are against this reform. For many people this hurts them a lot because they can’t have a fixed and stable work or simply remain unemployed. Also for the flexibility that employers may have with the layoffs.

On the other hand, the strike hasn’t been the best decision because from the beginning the government said that 
nothing would make them take a step back to rectify any substantial point of the new reform.

Thus, we can conclude that the people had their reasons to manifest but haven’t had desired success because the government had already given an answer before the Strike, saying it wouldn’t change his opinion in no time.

Demonstrators of the General Strike in the "Puerta del Sol", Madrid.

See you soon!

Miriam