Today was the first of the five days of industrial action called by education unions in this month of March. Unions called for mass participation to protest against the Education Department's policies and to demand improvements to the sector. At the moment, union USTEC claims that participation has been massive and exceeded expectations. The unions estimate that around 60% of school teachers have taken part in the strike, whereas Aspepc, a secondary school teachers' union, believes it is 75%. The Education Department, however, says that only 31.3% of state school teachers struck, according to data reported by 87.5% of school. At chartered schools, only 8.7% of teachers went on strike, according to data reported by 69.7% of schools. The unions claim more workers would have gone on strike had it not been for "abusive" minimum services requirements, but even so they claim the demonstration is "historical" and the strike "very massive".

Catalan Education minister Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray has sent a letter to the head teachers of all the schools in Catalonia to ask them for calm and not to change their language policy after the latest judicial setback. The minister has explained in an interview to RAC1 that they do not want to make schools responsible for deciding. That is why the Department is assuming the responsibility. However, Gonzàlez-Cambray does not believe the imposition of 25% of Castilian in the classrooms will entail any real changes. He has assured that he has "guarantees" from the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, that the Spanish government will not demand any changes. "School in Catalonia is in Catalan and the Catalan will not be touched", he lashed out.