Minimum services for healthcare, education, and universities approved for Nov 11

The Governing Council of the Region of Murcia has established the minimum services that must be maintained during the general strike called for Wednesday, November 11, 2026, with specific rules for healthcare, education, regional administration, and the two public universities. The decision was adopted at the meeting on November 5, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia (BORM) number 258, dated November 7, 2026, through Decree 241/2026 (A-071126-5452), the Agreement on the Regional Administration (A-071126-5456), and the Agreement for the University of Murcia and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (A-071126-5457).

The call, which is national in scope, is promoted by the executives of Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) and UGT, as well as by the Confederación Intersindical and CGT, according to the university agreement. The strike spans from 00:00 to 24:00 hours on the 11th, although in centers with multiple shifts, it will begin with the first and conclude with the last, even if it falls outside that schedule; furthermore, on the 10th, activities whose products or supplies must have immediate effects on the 11th will cease.

Decree 241/2026, signed by President Fernando López Miras and the Councilor for Business, Employment, and Social Economy, Luis Alberto Marín González, is based on Article 10 of Royal Decree-Law 17/1977 and Decree 35/2012, and entered into force on the day of its approval. The three regulations invoke Articles 28 and 37 of the Constitution and the guarantee of essential services.

Healthcare: emergencies and vital transfers at one hundred percent

The healthcare annex establishes the full maintenance of activity in critical areas. In hospitals, the workday will be treated as a holiday except for dialysis, oncology consultations, oncological surgery (urgent and non-deferrable), radiotherapy, day hospital treatments, and oncological pharmacy; ICU and Resuscitation units will maintain staffing for critical patients. In Primary Care, there will be two family doctors and one pediatrician in the morning and one family doctor in the afternoon, with the usual Saturday presence for the rest of the staff.

• Urgent health transport: 100% of the service.
• Scheduled transport: 100% for hemodialysis, oncological treatments and consultations, hyperbaric chamber, discharges and inter-center transfers; 70% for rehabilitation and outpatient consultations.
• Cleaning: 100% in operating rooms, emergency departments, ICU, wards, laboratories and primary care; 30% in administrative offices.
• Funeral services: 100%, with administrative staff at 75%.
• Pharmaceutical distribution: 90% in production, customer service and transport; 70% in the remaining departments.
• Residential centers of the Murcian Institute of Social Action: staffing equivalent to a holiday; 50% in the remaining centers and home care.

Education: one caretaker per center and ratios by number of units

In all educational centers with caretaker staff, one position must be covered, and in those with service assistants, one cleaning position. Nursery and Primary schools will have a principal, head of studies and two teachers for 1 to 9 units, four for 10 to 18 and six above that figure; institutes will have one, two or three teachers depending on whether they have up to 8, from 9 to 17 or more than 17 groups. Nursery schools for 0 to 3 years will have a principal, one kitchen position and one educator for every two classrooms.

Special Education schools are listed with fixed figures: Eusebio Martínez (Alcantarilla), 18 positions; Primitiva López (Cartagena), 30; Las Boqueras (Murcia), 16; Enrique Viviente (La Unión), 17; Ascruz (Caravaca), 16; Pilar Soubrier (Lorca), 31; Pérez Urruti (Churra), 26, and Cristo de la Misericordia (Murcia), 29.

Regional Administration: 66 positions in employment offices

The agreement for the regional public sector details the positions by department. The Regional Employment and Training Service will cover 66 positions in its offices, with seven in Cartagena, five in Lorca and Molina de Segura, four in Murcia-Ronda Norte and the rest distributed among 22 municipalities. The Tax Agency of the Region of Murcia will maintain 32 positions, one per tax office, and the General Directorate of Heritage will add 46 between central services, Mobile Park and security.

• Citizen Security and Emergencies: 18 positions.
• Natural Heritage and Climate Action: 37, with 21 environmental agents.
• Roads: 9 positions, eight in the Mobile Park.
• Elderly residences of the IMAS: 93 in San Basilio, 69 in Obispo Javier Azagra, 63 in Luis Valenciano.

Failure to comply with minimum services is classified as a very serious offense and personnel who support the strike will not receive remuneration for the time not worked.

Universities and transport: minimums agreed with the committees

At the University of Murcia, only teaching staff who must administer evaluable tests scheduled before November 3 are considered minimum services, along with access control at the Espinardo, La Merced, and Health Sciences campuses, the animal facility, one assistant per building and shift, and the registry. At the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, the general registry, IT, Rectorate secretariats, concierge services, and the technical unit are covered. In regional passenger transport, 60% of services are guaranteed during peak hours—from 06:30 to 09:00, 13:00 to 15:00, and 19:00 to 21:00—and 40% for the remainder, with 100% for special-use services, such as school transport.

The publication arrives four days before the strike and specifies, service by service, how many public employees must remain at their posts. For citizens, it means knowing which healthcare services, transport, school cafeterias, and residences will remain operational on 11-N, and for public employees, it establishes who is obligated to work and the disciplinary consequences if they do not.

Source: Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia, No. 258, of November 7, 2026, Section I. Autonomous Community, pp. 27090-27239 (official reference: A-071126-5452, A-071126-5456, and A-071126-5457).