According to the unions, 70% of workers did not go to work and instead joined the protests and manifestations accross Spain. The government has not responded with their own figures but has said ‘Spain did not stop due to the strike’. In the Canary Islands figures of over 20.000 people are quoted to have joined [...]
Archive for September, 2010
2010 September General Strike figures
Posted by Canaries News on September 30th, 2010
Posted in Canaries, Tenerife 
Tags: 29 september 2010, canary islands, general strike, spain, strike 
No Comments »Spains general strike goes ahead today
Posted by Canaries News on September 29th, 2010
A total of 573.228 workers in the Canaries have been called to strike today, 29th September 2010, the seventh general strike in the beginning of the democracy in Spain. Although it is noted that in the Canary Islands that 317.000 people will not be able to join the strike as they are unemployed (nearly 30% [...]
Posted in Canaries, National Tags: canary islands. september 2010, general strike, spain, strike 3 Comments »Spains General Strike raise minimum services
Posted by Canaries News on September 28th, 2010
According to a new document released by the Canarian government, the level of minimum services to be guaranteed tomorrow, 29th Sept. 2010 during the general strike, has been increased to cover 50% of the transport of passengers to/from ports and airports for domestic flights, and 40% for international flights, after many businesses complained that the [...]
Posted in Canaries, National Tags: canary islands, general strike, september 2010, spain No Comments »International theatre companies visit Tenerife
Posted by Canaries News on September 28th, 2010
Four theatre companies; Theatre Sans Frontieres (UK), Teatro Tamaska (Canary Islands) Theater Wahlverwandte (Germany) and Persona Theatre Company (Cypruss) are bringing the island of Tenerife this multilingual play with subtitles that review the borders, paradise images, borderline activity and the island as a prison through some stories linked by a subject theme. The cultural exchange [...]
Canaries celebrate International tourism day today
Posted by Canaries News on September 27th, 2010
Since 1980, today, 27th September, is internationally dedicated to tourism, this year under the subject theme ‘Tourism and biological diversity’. Accross the islands there will be events in most touristic municipalities.
Posted in Canaries, National Tags: international tourism day, tourism, Tourism and biological diversity No Comments »
