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The impact of the DANA of October 29 is not only measured in mud, but in an unprecedented economic paralysis. According to reports from the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and the Generalitat, the catastrophe affected more than 54.000 companies and jeopardized the livelihood of more than 190.000 workers affected by ERTEs, reduced working hours, and layoffs. With nearly 10.000 local shops and businesses devastated, the reconstruction of the ground zero requires a specialized workforce that the current market cannot cover.

Maturity doesn’t start when your back hurts. Not even when you have to enlarge the font on your phone because you can’t see a thing, or when you buy a hideous jacket for the number of pockets it has. True maturity begins the day a shopping cart…

The unions Ustec, CGT, CNT, COS and Intersindical, meeting urgently this afternoon, have decided that they will call a strike for next Tuesday, the 9th, coinciding with the Pope’s visit to Barcelona, as some of these organizations already announced yesterday. However, for now, no further strike days will be proposed.

NASA reported this Friday that it has ordered astronauts aboard the International Space Station to take shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for a possible evacuation, while a Russian crew attempts to repair an increasingly serious air leak in their part of the orbital laboratory.

The federation of family associations of Catalonia (aFFaC) asks the Department of Education to promote a major agreement on public education outside the union negotiation table, an agreement in which families participate. They interpret the rejection of the pre-agreement in Thursday’s consultation by teachers as a lack of vision from the Government and unions to understand the teachers’ demands.

For 720 million euros, perhaps someone would be so kind as to clarify for us exactly what more than 39.500 teachers in Catalunya have voted against. Have they voted against the salary increase of 400 euros per month? Asking shouldn’t bother anyone. If so, what was the figure…

After Catalan teachers rejected the education agreement and amidst the open conflict between teachers and the Department of Education, the Ustec and CGT unions have called a new strike day in Catalonia on June 9, coinciding with the first day of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Barcelona and also with the start of the university entrance exams.

One day after teachers rejected the educational pre-agreement in Catalonia, minister Esther Niubó was emphatic about the state of the conversations: “The negotiation is over,” Niubó declared in an interview on the program El món a Rac1. The minister acknowledged that the teachers’ rejection of the agreement, which will provide more resources to schools and entail a salary improvement for teachers, shows that “an entrenched discomfort has emerged.” However, she insisted that with the agreed improvements, “it is not a problem of resources.”

“I want to have a job that gives me a decent income to finish my 40-hour work week and be able to go out for a drink with my partner, with my friends, with my family.” Woman, 22 years old.

In Spain, more than 30% of people over 65 years old have hearing loss. However, many of them take more than eight years to seek a solution, which limits their opportunities to socialize, participate in daily activities, and maintain an active social life.