MADRID (AP) – Spanish workers are forming boisterous picket lines outside wholesale markets, some TV stations have gne off the air and car factories are all but idled in the early stage of a general strike over labor market reforms.
The Interior Ministry said a total of 58 people were detained and nine were injured in scuffles as Thursday’s strike got underway a minute after midnight.
Unions are challenging a conservative government not yet 100 days old and joining other troubled European workers in venting their frustration on the street.
The reforms make it easier and cheaper for firms to lay people off, and let companies cut wages unilaterally.
The strike comes as Spain is in the eye of the eurozone debt storm.
 
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