Spain: Adif rail infrastructure staff 24-hour strike on Tuesday 17 November 2026 (CCOO, UGT, CGT, SF, SCF) — all operators affected; Renfe's works council may join

The general works council of Adif, Spain's rail infrastructure manager, has called a 24-hour strike on Tuesday 17 November 2026, backed by CCOO, UGT, CGT, the Sindicato Ferroviario (SF) and the Sindicato de Circulación Ferroviario (SCF), with a demonstration in front of the Congress in Madrid on Monday 16 November. The council meets again on 18 November to decide on further action; union representatives have said the 17 November strike will not be the last.

What to expect: Adif staff run the traffic-control centres, signalling, stations and maintenance of the national network, so a strike there affects every operator — Renfe, Ouigo and Iryo alike — on high-speed, long-distance, regional and Cercanías lines. The Ministry of Transport sets the minimum services and publishes them a few days before the strike; the share of trains that run is not known yet. Renfe's own works council plans to call its staff out on the same days, which would widen the stoppage; its decision was still pending on 3 November. The strike comes one week after the Renfe drivers' strikes of 10 and 12 November and the general strike of 11 November.

Why: after the collision near Urda (Toledo) on 28 October, in which at least 69 people died, the unions demand urgent safety measures: a revision of Adif's and Renfe's safety protocols, effective coordination between infrastructure and operators, sufficient trained staff, stronger risk-prevention and emergency plans, and an investigation into the leak of control-centre recordings. CCOO also calls the separation of Renfe and Adif a mistake and wants a public group of companies that restores coordination between infrastructure and operations.