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THE MOVEMENT’S OWN MEDIUM · AIRBUS SPAIN

What happens at Airbus,we tell it ourselves.

The Airbus Spain workforce dispute, told by the people sustaining it: what is being demanded, what impact it is having, what documents back it and how it is funded.

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START OF THE INDEFINITE STRIKE

How it begins:24 and 25 August

The Strike Committee and the Working Groups have set out how each site starts. Find yours: stoppage window, assembly time and meeting point. Times and places are given in Spanish, exactly as they were announced.

Monday 24 · first day

Work stops for a three-hour window only, at the time and place set for each site.

From Tuesday 25

The strike resumes on the announced terms: 24 hours, indefinite, with no end date.

Alongside the stoppage, an assembly

The latest news and any progress in the negotiations will be reported, there will be an open floor for questions, and we will decide together how to face the indefinite strike.

Agenda · 24 August

  1. Report on the state of the negotiations.
  2. Ratification of the indefinite strike from 25 August.
  3. Decision on further action.

PRACTICAL GUIDE

Guide to joining the 24A strike at Airbus

What the right to strike protects, what happens to your contract and your pay, what the company may not lawfully do, and what to do on 24 August, step by step. Called by CGT, ÚTIL and UGT.

Download the guidePDF · 82 KB · ES

Getafe

  • Night shift

    03:45–06:45

    Assembly
    05:30
    Meeting point
    Vestuario A5
  • Morning shift

    10:30–13:30

    Assembly
    11:30
    Meeting point
    Entre P1 - A1
  • Afternoon shift

    17:00–20:00

    Assembly
    18:00
    Meeting point
    Entre P1 - A1

San Pablo

  • Morning shift

    09:00–12:00

    Assembly
    10:00
    Meeting point
    Comedor S. Pablo Sur
  • Afternoon shift

    17:00–20:00

    Assembly
    18:00
    Meeting point
    Comedor S. Pablo Sur

Illescas

  • Morning shift

    09:35–12:35

    Assembly
    10:35
    Meeting point
    Autoclaves WLC350
  • Afternoon shift

    17:35–20:35

    Assembly
    18:35
    Meeting point
    Autoclaves WLC350

Albacete

  • Morning shift

    09:00–12:00

    Assembly
    10:00
    Meeting point
    Puerta del edificio A, dentro de la factoría
  • Afternoon shift

    16:00–19:00

    Assembly
    17:00
    Meeting point
    Puerta del edificio A, dentro de la factoría

Tablada

  • Morning shift

    12:00–14:45

    Assembly
    12:00
    Meeting point
    Salón de actos
  • Afternoon shift

    17:00–20:00

    Assembly
    18:00
    Meeting point
    Salón de actos

Cádiz

La asamblea de Cádiz se pospone hasta el 1 de septiembre. Se ha acordado que, en caso de tener que tomar una decisión entre el 24 de agosto y el 1 de septiembre, se asumirá la decisión mayoritaria del resto de las asambleas.

Source: statement from the Strike Committee and the Working Groups. Times and meeting points exactly as announced.

Campaign illustration: a giant gorilla holds a propeller aircraft aloft while raising its fist and roaring before a crowd of workers answering with raised fists, at sunset.
  • Albacete
  • Cádiz
  • Getafe
  • Illescas
  • San Pablo
  • Tablada

THE DISPUTE

A strike that is a consequence, not a cause.

The mobilisation of the Airbus Spain workforce — a strike from 1 to 23 July 2026 and an indefinite strike called from 24 August — does not stem from an isolated decision, but from a gradual erosion of trust after years of decisions taken without effective negotiation, and at a time of economic strength for the company. These are the movement's demands:

Manifesto in other languages:FrançaisDeutsch
List of demands – v3:EspañolPDF · 0.5 MB

REPORT BY THE MOVEMENT

Same Sky, Different Pay · The Spanish Gap

Airbus Spain versus the Group and the global aerospace industry: pay, inflation protection, working hours and value sharing. Every figure is tagged and traceable to a public source.

Web report · August 2026 · ES · EN · FR · DE

01

Restoring purchasing power

Inflation (CPI) as the basis for pay reviews from 2026, plus an extraordinary rise to offset the accumulated loss.

Read the detail

The Airbus Spain workforce has absorbed years of continued loss of purchasing power that reflects neither the company's results nor the extraordinary effort made by its workers. Recovering pay is not only an economic matter: it is recognition of the commitment shown through the company's most difficult years, and a precondition for continuing to attract and retain the best talent.

What is demanded

  • Restoring CPI as the basis for annual pay reviews (RSG) from 2026.
  • An extraordinary increase, separate from the annual review, to compensate for the purchasing power lost over recent years.
02

Work-life balance and trust

Remote work at the worker's choice where the role allows, and flexibility in managing holidays.

Read the detail

Work-life balance cannot be treated as a privilege: it is a modern organisational tool that supports productivity, commitment and people's wellbeing. Airbus has been a benchmark here for years, and recent decisions are a step backwards that is hard to reconcile with the leadership model the company itself promotes.

What is demanded

  • The option, at the worker's choice and in roles whose nature allows it, of working 40% of the week remotely, with compensatory measures for roles requiring greater on-site presence.
  • Restoring flexibility in holiday management, letting teams organise it among themselves while keeping two weeks in August as a recommendation.
03

Services for the workforce

A universal, free canteen with no co-payments or payroll deductions; maintaining the transport routes.

Read the detail

Staff services are essential tools that let workers do their jobs in the best conditions. They cannot become items subject to unilateral changes that progressively erode working conditions.

What is demanded

  • A guaranteed universal, free canteen for Airbus workers, with no co-payments or payroll deductions.
  • Maintaining the current level of the transport route service.
04

Reviewing the Bradford factor

Health must not be treated as a productivity metric: remove the factor or exclude medical leave from it.

Read the detail

Workers' health cannot be treated as a productivity indicator or as a form of indirect penalty. Absence-control policies must aim to understand and prevent causes, never to discourage the exercise of legally recognised rights nor to create a climate of distrust towards those going through temporary incapacity.

What is demanded

  • Removal of the Bradford factor or, failing that, exclusion of medical leave from its calculation.
05

Protecting the future of Airbus Spain

Written guarantees that organisational changes will not harm jobs or working conditions.

Read the detail

Organisational transformations must be carried out while preserving the workforce's rights and avoiding fragmentation processes that erode the Group's cohesion.

What is demanded

  • Management signing the schedule of guarantees backed by a majority of the Space workforce, committing in writing that its implementation will not harm working conditions, work organisation or employment.
06

Equality between generations

A transparent pay policy recognising experience and responsibility, with no gaps based on joining date.

Read the detail

The pay and benefits model must recognise every worker's contribution and experience, and guarantee equal opportunity, avoiding differences arising solely from the date they joined the company.

What is demanded

  • A signed commitment to draw up a new pay policy with a transparent system for recognising experience, duties performed and responsibility held.
  • Ending prolonged entry-level pay, guaranteeing pay progression in line with the worker's real contribution.
07

Redress for the dispute

An extraordinary, individual compensation, proportional to the strike days observed.

Read the detail

What is demanded

  • Establishing an extraordinary, individual compensation for each worker, proportional to the strike days actually observed.

TIMELINE

How we got here.

From the first day of the strike to the indefinite strike called for 24 August. Each milestone carries the document behind it and the outlets that reported it.

Follow the path down. Each milestone opens what backs it up: the photo, the documents and the media that reported it.

  1. today

STRIKE THERMOMETER

Data as of August 22, 2026

The strike is real and it's in every outlet.

Tracking of the dispute's public reach: how much the strike is covered, across how many outlets and in what tone. It shows this is not an isolated case but a mobilisation with echo.

Medium risk

37,1% of coverage is negative for the company

Media risk
Aug 24
Resumption · indefinite strike (in 2 days)
661
Total articles
246
Distinct outlets
4
Articles today

Tone of coverage toward the company

Negative
37%
Neutral
59%
Positive
4%

Positive, neutral or negative for the company's position —not the movement's.

Coverage per day

02957Jul 01Aug 22

BREAKING POINT · ESTIMATED IMPACT ON THE COMPANY

This analysis dates from July 16, 2026 and does not yet take the second strike call into account. The band keeps growing on the assumptions of that date, so read it as an order of magnitude, not an up-to-date figure. This notice will disappear on its own as soon as the source refreshes the analysis.

How this band is built

It is not what Airbus reports losing: it is an outside estimate built on public facts — what each plant makes and its role in the supply chain — and on two scenarios.

There are two regimes, not one
While plants draw on accumulated inventory, a day of stoppage costs little: assembly carries on with what was in the warehouse. That is the buffer regime. Once a plant runs that buffer down, final assembly lines run out of parts and the daily cost multiplies: that is the breakdown regime.
That is why the curve steepens
Day 1 does not cost what day 25 costs. A day of closure at Getafe costs half a million at the start; with stabilisers exhausted, between six and ten. Up to twelve times more for the same day of strike.
The band is two hypotheses, not an error margin
The lower line assumes inventory holds for the whole window without breaking. The upper line assumes it breaks around week three. What actually happens will sit somewhere between the two.
120.1 M€–549.4 M€
Cumulative to date (min–max)
8.8 M€–20 M€
Daily cost (min–max)
0 €291.2 M€582.3 M€Jul 01Aug 22
Cumulative min–max band

Lower bound: inventory holds for the whole window · Upper bound: the chain breaks around week three

What to watch to know which way it is going
The most direct indicator is Beluga traffic, the aircraft that moves parts between factories. While it holds up, the company is compensating with inventory; a sustained drop is the sign that the chain has started to feel it.

Scenario estimate from an independent tracker, built on public facts and on each plant's role in the supply chain. It is not an official Airbus figure nor a verified quantification of the dispute: it is an order of magnitude, refreshed daily from the source.

On social media

1,751
messages on Telegram
134
posts on X · 4 idiomas
20
mentions on Mastodon

LinkedIn and Instagram are not included: there is no reliable, free way to query them without breaching their terms. X figures are compiled by the committee by hand, not automatically.

See the full dashboard

The full dashboard (with plant-by-plant detail, the reasoning and the share price) is an independent third-party project and opens on its own site. What you see here is an extract.

THE RESISTANCE FUND

So that nobody has to give in for lack of money.

The fund supports those who lose pay for sustaining the mobilisation. It has its own page: what it is, what it is spent on, how to contribute and how it is accounted for.

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY

Solidarity knows no borders.

Other workplaces, European unions, works councils, federations and allied organisations can support the fund and spread the campaign. This section is available in Spanish, English, French and German.

Summary of the dispute, the fund's goal, ways to collaborate and institutional contribution for international organisations.

DOCUMENTATION

Minutes, summaries and documents of the movement.

The minutes of each site's assemblies, the group's daily summaries and the full index of documents catalogued by the movement itself. Everything arrives collapsed: open only what you want to read.

55
assembly minutes
48
group summaries
90
catalogued documents

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Common questions.

Who runs the fund?

A committee of the workforce itself, under collective control and with traceability of every operation. Those responsible will be made public.

How do I know the money is used well?

Because the figures are derived from verified data and published: raised, costs, aid paid out and distribution criteria, with downloadable reports.

Can I contribute anonymously?

Yes. You can choose for your contribution not to appear publicly. Information about aid applicants is always private.

Can I cancel a recurring contribution?

Yes, in one click and at any time, with access to your contribution history.

Can I contribute from outside Spain?

Yes. The fund is designed to receive national and international solidarity.

Does the salary-day calculator store my pay?

No. It runs entirely in your browser; the amount you enter is neither sent nor stored.

CONTACT

Get in touch.

For questions, press, organisations or to collaborate with the managing committee.

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