León province: interurban bus strikes on nine days from 30 October to 30 December 2026 (UGT and CCOO)

The unions UGT and CCOO have called the roughly 450 workers of León province's interurban bus services to nine 24-hour strikes: Friday 30 October; 2, 11 and 24 November; and 4, 8, 9, 23 and 30 December 2026. The call covers all interurban lines in the province under the provincial collective agreement; the city buses of León are not part of it.

What to expect: the Junta de Castilla y León has set minimum services for each strike day. Routes shared with school transport run in full and dedicated school routes keep a driver on school days; services for people with disabilities, care homes, special-education centres and prisons run normally. On the regular lines a minimum number of return trips is guaranteed in the busiest bands (07:00–10:00, 13:30–16:00 and 18:00–21:00), commuter routes within 10 km of León keep up to 50% of trips, and the rest of the day runs at a minimum of 10% with at least one return trip. Operators must tell passengers which trips run.

Why: talks on the provincial collective agreement are blocked after thirteen meetings and a failed session at the regional mediation service SERLA. The unions say León's drivers are among the worst paid in Castilla y León — about 19,000 euros gross a year, 5,000 less than in Zamora and up to 8,000 less than in Asturias — and work shifts of up to 15 hours of driving and stand-by time with too little rest. They ask for a minimum of 24,000 euros a year by the end of a three-year agreement, regulated hours and rest, protection against assaults, early-retirement coefficients and life insurance, and want the public funding the Junta gives the sector to reach the workers.