Overview
- The province-wide walkout Thursday drew calls to roughly 33,000 workers at about 3,500 firms and left production in many plants near a standstill.
- Unions CC. OO., UGT and CIG called the strike after thirteen bargaining meetings with employer groups Asime, Atra and Instalectra ended without a deal.
- Workers seek a 16% pay rise over four years, two months of continuous summer shifts to limit heat stress, hazard and hardship pay in shipyards, and regrading for first-category officers.
- Employer associations said unions rejected a pre-deal with a 14.5% raise, and later offered 13% in a revised proposal that unions argue still falls short.
- Pickets controlled access to worksites and the day passed without major incidents, and unions set new stoppages for May 13–14 and May 19–21 that would overlap the Navalia trade event in Vigo.