Spain strike row: Díaz slams PP's AI prawn jibe

An AI image of trade unionists eating prawns sparks a strike row in Spain on 11 November: the People's Party (PP) posts it with a joke about the strike's key moment being the aperitif. Deputy prime minister and labour minister Yolanda Díaz hits back on Bluesky, calling it “intolerable” for a party seeking to govern Spain to mock a constitutional right. She offers her support to the unions and workers stopping work. Europa Press reports her remarks from Madrid, Spain.

Díaz says strikes and union campaigns helped win the eight-hour working day, paid holidays and women's rights. She also points to weekends off, sick pay and pensions as gains that workers and unions once had to fight for.

She argues that what troubles the PP is not a picture but workers organising when staff are treated badly. Her support, she says, is for people striking for decent wages and housing they can afford, not for those using AI to laugh at them.

Topics: Politics

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com