Airport workers to stage ‘indefinite’ strike over Easter

This month in labour history

3-03-1976 In Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spanish police killed 5 workers and injured another 100 during a general strike. [more]

8-03-1905 Dolores Prat Coll was born in Catalonia to a poor family. She became a prominent militant in the CNT and helped organize worker-controlled industry during the Spanish revolution. She remained active until her death in 2001. [more]

12-03-1951 300,000 workers stage general strike in Barcelona #Spain to protest grievances with the Franco dictatorship. Troops were deployed and thousands arrested but the strike encouraged workers struggles across the region. [more]

14-03-2017 Joaquina Dorado Pita, Spanish wood workers' union militant who participated in the colectivization of the industry in the revolution and member of the anti-Franco underground, died in Barcelona just short of her 100th birthday. [more]

29-03-1943 9 members of "Juventudes libertarias", a group composed mostly of CNT members, opposing the fascist military regime, are arrested and garroted at the Modelo prison, the first of tens of thousands to suffer the same fate under Franco. [more]