CNT STRIKE COMMITTEE SIGNS AGREEMENT ON WAGES AND CONDITIONS WITH THE AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING COMPANY ~ from CNT Seville ~ The strike at GAZC Sevilla SL, called by CNT and started on October 6, ended yesterday with the signing of a strike settlement agreement. The agreement includes a new bonus system that more fairly compensates night work, promotions, a new professional classification system, greater participation in the creation of the work schedule, and increased flexibility in choosing vacation days. Payment of wages during vacations is corrected, and measures are taken to ensure job stability and guarantee rights for union representation. Mechanisms have been added to the agreement to maintain a climate of dialogue and negotiation so that, in the future, an attempt can be made to avoid the escalation of a possible conflict. The strike ends after a tough conflict that was finally resolved thanks to the impetus given to negotiations by both sides a couple of weeks ago, the result of the willingness of both the union and the company to restart dialogue and end an indefinite strike that ultimately lasted 72 days. Following a constructive final negotiation process, both the union and the company consider the agreement reached to be balanced, with mutual concessions that have made it possible to end the strike. Both parties hope that the signing of the agreement will usher in a new era of mutual understanding, aimed at resolving any future disagreements through dialogue. The post Strike at GAZC Seville ends after 72 days appeared first on Freedom News.

THE INTERNATIONALIST MILITANT AND EDUCATOR WAS ALSO A PIONEER OF LGBT+ ORGANISING ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Tino Brugos, a committed trade unionist, educator and internationalist whose activism spanned more than four decades of social struggles in Spain and beyond, died on 10 November 2025 in his native Cantabria. He was 67. Born in Santander to a working-class family, Brugos became a history teacher and long-time syndicalist militant. Colleagues describe him as a figure of rare coherence and generosity, a union organiser who “brought people together, listened, and worked with rigour, tenderness and a sense of humour”. Brugos was central to defending public education, secular schooling and equality in the classroom, transmitting to generations of students a critical understanding of the world and a belief that social transformation was possible. He played a key role in the Inter-syndicalist Confederation, later becoming its head of union action, and was known for his democratic instincts and ability to hold diverse movements together. An early pioneer of LGBT+ organising in Asturias, he helped open spaces where visibility still carried personal risk. He was also active in feminist, ecological and labour struggles, seeing them as inseparable fronts of the same fight for collective emancipation. Brugos’s internationalism was equally deep. He participated in solidarity campaigns with Kurdistan, Palestine and the Western Sahara, and travelled repeatedly as an observer to support human-rights defenders. In 2023 he was expelled from Turkey for his work accompanying the Kurdish movement—an episode fellow activists cite as emblematic of his commitment. Anticapitalistas Asturies remembered him as “a revolutionary encyclopaedia” whose homeland “was anywhere an oppressive regime was doing the oppressing”. He was also active in antifascist memory work with La Comuna and other groups documenting Francoist repression, viewing historical memory as a living tool for present struggles. The CGT union, which had been collaborating with Brugos on recent working groups, noted his tireless dedication to anti-militarist organising, opposition to NATO and solidarity with peoples resisting war and occupation. Brugos had recently retired from teaching but remained active until days before his death. Friends and comrades across the left have expressed profound loss. “Your loss is enormous for the movement in Asturies, the Spanish state and internationally”, wrote Anticapitalistas. For the Confederación Intersindical, his legacy is a mandate to continue “the defence of public services, critical education, equality of rights, democratic memory and solidarity between peoples”. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Verified machine edit The post Tino Brugos (1958–2025) appeared first on Freedom News.

ACTIVISTS SENTENCED TO PRISON IN SPAIN FOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST WORKPLACE, EQUATING PUBLIC ECONOMIC PRESSURE WITH CRIMINAL COERCION ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Workers’ groups yesterday (28 Sep) showed their solidarity with the six union activists from Gijon, Spain, who face prison for their campaign against La Suiza pastry shop. Unions warn of a massive blow to trade union freedom in Spain and beyond, if the rulings against these activists become the legal standard. In addition to a demonstration of thousands in Gijon supported by eleven trade unions, rallies were held at the Spanish embassy in Paris, the Instituto Cervantes in Berlin, and the La Pasionaria statue in Glasgow, among other locations, in response to a call from the International Confederation of Labour (ICL). The case began in 2017, when an employee of the shop in Gijón (Xixón, Asturias) contacted the local branch of the CNT union, saying her boss was not paying her overtime or paid holidays, with suspicions of harassment in the background. After the boss turned down an offer of talks, the CNT undertook a campaign of leaflets and posters by pastry shop, located on a large avenue in the city. The police were always present and had nothing to complain about. Solidarity demonstration in Hamburg. Photo: FAU The boss responded with legal action, including alleged “coercion” in a complaint that was over 11,000 pages long. A judge at the regional court, known to be very anti-worker and anti-union, accepted the boss’s allegations. In 2021 the unionists were convicted and sentenced to 3.5 years in prison each without parole and compensation of 125,428 Euro. The CNT appealed, but the Spanish Supreme Court confirmed the previous verdict last June. The remaining legal remedies are negligible: going to the European Court of Justice or a legal attempt to have the prison sentence suspended. According to a CNT legal analysis, the attempt to equate public and economic pressure with criminal “coercion” amounts to criminalising union actions the moment they become effective. “Trade union freedom cannot be limited to mere symbolic but ultimately inconsequential acts…the instruments that the constitution and the law provide to the union to defend workers necessarily entail causing harm to the employer”, said the document. Eleven Spanish unions called for Saturday’s demonstrations. Image: CNT Gijon In Dresden, FAU activists held an information stand at a local charity run. In Hamburg’s Arrivatipark, activists held a rally and leafleted passers-by to the songs of Galician reggae band Fatwaves Syndicate. Accortding to the FAU, in Germany workers are also experiencing “a repeated questioning of union rights, even to the point of the most vile agitation…In the next few years, Germany will face a serious economic crisis, not to mention a shift to the right. Our rights fundamentally depend on us defending them and our unions, including internationally”. In the UK, minimum service laws instated under the Tories similarly threaten workers’ ability to strike, with no indications of their repeal by the Labour government. The post Rallies for Suiza 6: “Syndicalism is not a crime!” appeared first on Freedom News.