Housing strike set For November 11

Oct 7

RTVE reports agreement on a 24-hour nationwide strike for November 11, promoted by the Tenants' Union and supported by CCOO and UGT, with CGT and regional unions also joining. Labour organizers connect housing costs with low wages. Sol participants welcome the call but consider one day insufficient and say they will remain camped. CSIF disputes the strike's labour character, while CEPYME's Ángela de Miguel says employers cannot resolve its housing grievance. Luis Renes's later return follows the completed joint press conference, whose speakers mourn Maricarmen and call for a mass popular strike. Alicia del Río blames speculation and rentierism for her death and pledges to preserve her legacy. The strike is forthcoming, two days before the reported campaign start, not an action already held.

The tenants' association announces the death of eighty-seven-year-old Mari Carmen Abascal, whose Madrid eviction had sparked nationwide housing protests. Tagesthemen says she could no longer pay sharply increased rent after seventy years in the apartment and recalls the resulting tenant-protection demands. The record dates the announcement, not an externally inferred time of death. RTVE's October 7 breaking account, confirmed by the Tenants' Union, reports that Maricarmen died that afternoon at Madrid's Gregorio Marañón hospital after two weeks of hospitalization following her eviction. The negotiated return home was never realized. Muela reports deteriorating health but no doctors' statement, medical cause or funeral details. Sol campers grieve and pledge to remain. At the joint strike press conference the Tenants' Union blames speculation and rentierism; those causal accusations are attributed rather than established medical findings. TV Brasil's October 7 notice also says Maricarmen died that day in Madrid and had been hospitalized since eviction after roughly seventy years at home. This is the programme's stated chronology; it does not independently establish a medical cause or exact death time.