In Asturias members of a student organisation spent the night into Wednesday in a building at the University of Oviedo to prepare for the general strike on 11 November. According to the news portal elDiario.es, they ended their action at 8am and then joined the protests. A demonstration was announced for the evening in Oviedo.
The action took place in the department building on the Campus de Milán campus. Members of the Socialist Student Organisationwere involved. They wanted to organise work stoppages and activities in support of employees there. The report does not say how many people took part in the overnight action or whether it disrupted university operations.
The University’s Student Council had already called for an academic work stoppage on the day of the strike at the end of October. According to a report by the Europa Press news agency, it justified this with demands for affordable housing and decent working conditions and wages. The university stoppage coincides with the nationwide general strike.
According to elDiario.es, pickets were also present at major logistics sites in central Asturias on Wednesday morning. They urged employees to join the work stoppage. As of the report’s 11.09am cut-off, there had been no major incidents in the region.
The UGT and CCOO trade unions had called the general strike in Asturias together with social organisations and groups campaigning for the right to housing. Their demands include affordable housing, higher wages and a cap on price rises. According to elDiario.es, the regional general secretaries of both unions said on Wednesday that, apart from essential services, production in Asturias had ground to a halt. The report did not include an independent overall assessment of the impact.
For transport routes under its jurisdiction with more than ten trips a day, the regional government set a minimum service level of 25 per cent, Europa Press reported, citing the official gazette. Rallies were planned in several cities for midday on Wednesday. The main demonstration was due to start at 6pm at the Plaza de América in Oviedo. This information relates to the announcements; the morning report does not yet include an account of the evening event.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).