Are buses and trams on Tenerife running normally again?

The strike applied only on 11 November, with a 75% minimum service at Titsa and 70% at Metrotenerife. There are no reports of disruption since, and current timetables are on the operators’ websites.

Is there a new general strike on the Canary Islands?

Nobody has named a date as of Saturday 14 November. Daniel Casal of the Federación Sindical Canaria did not rule out a later general strike, but gave no date.

Who called the general strike of 11 November?

CCOO and UGT called it, together with CGT, CNT and other organisations. An opinion piece names the tenants’ union Sindicato de Inquilinas as the real organiser, while the reports name it as a co-sponsor of the demands.

Why was the show La Revuelta cancelled?

It was cancelled on 11 November because of the strike and on 12 November because of the Czechia v Spain match. The next episode is planned for Monday 16 November.

How many people demonstrated in the Canary Islands?

In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, police counted about 3,000. In Arrecife the organisers gave more than 5,000 and police about 1,500, and there is no official estimate for Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

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What applies to visitors in the south of Tenerife now?

The general strike lasted a full 24 hours on Wednesday 11 November, from 00:00 to 24:00. For travellers arriving now, it is in the past.

There are no reports of closures or changed timetables after 11 November. Anyone taking a Titsa bus or the tram in the coming days should check the operators’ websites to be safe.

Nobody has named a new strike date as of Saturday 14 November. Daniel Casal of the Federación Sindical Canaria (trade union federation) did not rule out a later general strike on the islands, but wanted to see first how 11 November was received.

What applied to buses and trams on 11 November?

Titsa (the island bus operator) kept 75% of its usual journeys running. The other 25% could change, including airport routes, and Titsa published the affected journeys on its website.

The Metrotenerife tram ran a 70% minimum service on lines 1 and 2, on the weekday timetable from 06:00 to 24:00. Current notices appeared on the stop displays and at @tranviatenerife.

Strikers set up information pickets at Mercalaspalmas, at ports on Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, and at bus stations. The CCOO union reported a few incidents involving police, but otherwise described a normal day.

A report of 12 November says the interior minister ordered an inquiry into the police operation. Details and any result are not confirmed.

Who called the strike and why?

CCOO and UGT called it, together with CGT, CNT and other organisations, and the notice for the Canaries went to the Dirección General de Trabajo (labour authority) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 23 October. The unions’ slogan was wages, housing and prices.

The unions cite 211,000 empty homes in the Canaries, but the source of that figure was not given. They say renting out about 20% of them would solve the problem, and that the Canaries also have the lowest wages in Spain.

The Sindicato de Inquilinas (tenants’ union) says rents have risen by an average of 143% in 13 years, which is its own figure. Spokesperson David González accuses the regional government of refusing to designate stressed housing markets, where rent caps can apply.

How many people took to the streets?

In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, police counted about 3,000 people. In Arrecife on Lanzarote, the organisers spoke of more than 5,000, while police put it at about 1,500.

There is no official estimate for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the march ran under the slogan “Homes are for living in, not for speculating”. The tenants’ union had expected more than 10,000 people, which is an expectation and not a count.

The marches on La Palma and La Gomera were cancelled because of a weather warning over Storm Charles. In workplaces, Francisco González of UGT described uneven turnout but a clear strike mood.

Esther Ortega of CCOO said turnout was lower in private firms because workers could not afford to lose a day’s pay. No percentage was published, and no official figures from the Ministry of Labour could be found.

What does David Broncano have to do with the strike?

David Broncano’s show “La Revuelta” on the state broadcaster RTVE was cancelled on Wednesday 11 November. Broncano announced this at the end of Tuesday’s programme, citing the strike participation of his production team.

The show did not air on Thursday 12 November either, because La 1 showed the Czechia v Spain UEFA Nations League match. The next episode is planned for Monday 16 November.

An unconfirmed headline from a Tenerife broadcaster links the show’s disappearance to an interview with Santiago Abascal. The sources consulted give only the strike as the reason for the cancellation.

An opinion piece of 14 November links the two events, saying Broncano apologised to viewers for the botched Abascal interview. The author also calls the strike a failure and blames both on the schooling of the young, whom the author calls children and grandchildren of the LOGSE.

The piece disagrees with the reports on who carried the strike, claiming the real organiser was the tenants’ union rather than the big unions. The reports instead name CCOO and UGT as the callers, and say they adopted the tenants’ union’s demands.

What comes next?

The general election is planned for 29 November 2026. Manuel Navarro, UGT general secretary in the Canaries, warned that things could get worse if certain forces win a majority, and named a possible PP and Vox government.

Navarro called the strike clearly a labour strike without excluding its political side, and the unions rejected the opposition’s claim that it was political. Still open are the final turnout figures, the number for Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the result of the police inquiry.