Minimum bus services for the general strike on November 11

The Official Gazette of Extremadura publishes this Tuesday, November 10, 2026, in issue 216, the Order of November 6, 2026, from the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport, and Housing, which establishes the minimum services for public regular road passenger transport services under regional jurisdiction in view of the general strike on November 11. The regulation, with official reference 2026050127, enters into force on the day of its publication, and its effects expire upon the cancellation of the strike. It is signed by the regional minister Francisco José Ramírez González in Mérida.

24-hour Call and Regional Scope

The order responds to the calls communicated by Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) and Unión General de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras (UGT) via a joint letter dated October 16, 2026, and by the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), which submitted notice on October 19, 2026. The strike extends from 0:00 to 24:00 hours on November 11 and affects all labor and functional activities of the public and private sectors throughout the State.

The scope of application covers regular public road passenger transport that runs entirely through Extremaduran territory, including partial services and state-owned internal transport delegated to the community, as well as auxiliary and complementary activities. Communications between population centers that can be served by other regular modes of land transport are excluded.

The reasons cited by the organizers are the effectiveness of the right to decent housing under Article 47 of the Constitution, the increase in the purchasing power of wages, and the resumption of collective bargaining; CGT adds the increase of the national minimum wage and pensions.

50% Rule and One Round-Trip Journey

Article 2 of the order specifies the minimums according to the number of journeys of each concession, defining a journey as each independent trip with a differentiated schedule between connected centers:

• Services with fewer than six journeys: one outbound and one return journey will be provided, coinciding with the first and last authorized trips in the usual schedule.
• Services with six or more journeys: 50% of the journeys will be provided, of which two, outbound and return, will be the first and last, and the rest will be distributed during the period of highest user demand.
• The percentage will be rounded up if the decimal fraction is equal to or greater than five tenths, and rounded down if it is lower.
• On routes between provincial capitals or municipalities of similar size, the first outbound journey and the last return journey must be carried out in both directions.

The order also mandates that indispensable activities to meet these minimums be maintained at Passenger Transport Stations and requires that the assigned personnel be sufficient to fulfill them. It expressly prohibits providing minimum services fraudulently to cover demand for non-included expeditions, with reference to intensification campaigns, illegal changes to calendars or schedules, and reinforcements exceeding those usual on holidays or eves.

Health and funeral transport at 100%

The same DOE issue includes two other health orders due to the strike. The Order of November 9, 2026, from the Department of Health and Dependency Care (2026050131), signed by Councilor Sara García Espada, sets 100% of the personnel necessary for the land health transport of the Extremeño Health Service, executed by the UTE Ambuvital Transporte Sanitario SL and Servicios Socio Sanitarios Generales Spain, SL.

The protected services are:

• Urgent health transport, with emergency ambulances, PAC-UMAC, SVB, and UME/UMAR.
• Non-deferrable continuous treatments: hemodialysis or dialysis, oncological chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments, and others with non-deferrable clinical indications.
• Interhospital transport of serious or critical patients.
• A2-A1 scheduled service ambulances are excluded.

Added to this is the Order of November 9, 2026, regarding minimum services in the funeral sector (2026050130).

Legal basis and appeals

The transport regulation is based on article 9.1.39 of the Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura (Organic Law 1/2011, of January 28), article 10 of Royal Decree-Law 17/1977, of March 4, and article 3 of Royal Decree 635/1984, of March 26, on the guarantee of minimum services in road transport, in relation to the President’s Decree 11/2026, of April 29.

An administrative-law appeal may be filed against the order before the High Court of Justice of Extremadura within two months and, optionally, a motion for reconsideration before the councilor within one month. The text emphasizes that the decision is published precisely so that companies and workers can submit it to jurisdictional criteria.

The scope of the measure is twofold: thousands of intercity bus users see departures cut in half or reduced to a simple round trip, while the concessionary companies assume the obligation to organize shifts and personnel without being able to expand services. For municipalities where the regular bus is the only means of collective public transport, the order is the guarantee that on November 11 there will still be connections to health, educational, and administrative centers.

Source: Official Gazette of Extremadura, no. 216, of November 10, 2026, section I (General Provisions), page 1 (official reference: 2026050127).