UGT and CCOO had long been proposing to "decentralize" the main May Day demonstration and change Madrid as the location, as explained by the general secretary of CCOO, Unai Sordo, this Monday. Finally, they have opted for Malaga, but it has not escaped anyone's notice that it coincides with the start of the election campaign in Andalusia. In fact, it is taken for granted that the socialist candidate for Andalusia and until recently first vice-president of the Spanish government, María Jesús Montero, will attend. "It has nothing to do with the elections [...] [The mobilization] cannot be improvised overnight," the unions indicated, thus ruling out the idea of a conscious coincidence. The choice of the Andalusian city is due to the fact that it experiences firsthand the problem of access to housing, as they explained.

UGT and CCOO had been planning to "decentralize" the main May Day demonstration and change Madrid as the location for some time, as explained by the general secretary of CCOO, Unai Sordo, this Monday. Finally, they have opted for Malaga, but it has not escaped anyone's notice that it coincides with the start of the electoral campaign in Andalusia. In fact, it is taken for granted that the socialist candidate for Andalusia and until recently the first vice-president of the Spanish government, María Jesús Montero, will attend. "It has nothing to do with the elections [...] [The mobilization] cannot be improvised from one day to the next," the unions have indicated, thus ruling out the idea of a conscious coincidence. The choice of the Andalusian city is due to the fact that it experiences the problem of access to housing firsthand, as they have explained.

"For those of us with very physical jobs, beyond improving work-life balance, reducing the workday would help us reduce this workload and improve our health." Diego works in the cleaning industry and this holiday, May Day, he dedicated it to demonstrating to demand that Spain finally approve the 37.5-hour work week. The proposal to reduce the legal limit for the workday for the first time in forty years has once again been the focus of protests that have been repeated in some eighty Spanish cities.

Donald Trump's arrival at the White House will not go unnoticed this May Day, or at least not among the majority unions, CCOO and UGT, which are proposing next week's mobilizations as a dam against the policies of the US president. "It should be a May Day marked by the clamor for shorter working hours, but it will be a clamor for democracy with the arrival of Donald Trump," said CCOO leader Unai Sordo at a press conference this Monday, during the presentation of the two unions' manifesto for International Workers' Day 2025: "Win the Future."