Barcelona Nissan workers are set to hold a week of protests from 3 to 6 June over a redundancy plan that threatens 211 jobs at the company’s El Prat de Llobregat and Zona Franca sites. The company committees say the actions are aimed at defending jobs and keeping operations going.
CCOO set out the protest calendar on Tuesday, 2 June. On Wednesday, 3 June, workers will gather at 11:00 outside the Catalan Parliament, where they plan to ask for administrative action to protect industrial jobs in Catalonia. Committee spokespeople expect to meet representatives from several parliamentary groups.
On Thursday, 4 June, there will be two demonstrations, one in the Zona Franca industrial estate and one in El Prat de Llobregat, before the groups join together. The week will end on Saturday, 6 June, with a larger march starting at 11:00 in Urquinaona Square and heading down Via Laietana to Sant Jaume Square, where both Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat are based.
The redundancy plan, known in Spain as an ERE, affects three Nissan centres in Catalonia. It includes 110 job cuts at the El Prat de Llobregat spare parts centre, 86 at the Zona Franca technical centre, and 15 at the El Prat functional areas centre, which handles human resources and prevention. The plan does not include Nissan sites in Ávila or Los Corrales de Buelna, Cantabria.
The move is part of Nissan’s global restructuring plan, Re:Nissan, announced in May 2025. The company expects to cut 20,000 jobs worldwide between fiscal years 2024 and 2027, reduce its plant network from 17 to 10, and remove about 900 jobs in Europe, around 10% of its continental workforce.
Nissan already closed its Zona Franca plant in Barcelona in 2020, along with centres in Sant Andreu de la Barca and Montcada i Reixac. That decision triggered one of Catalonia’s biggest industrial crises in recent years. For more local business and jobs coverage, see our Community and Sport pages.
Source: Metrópoli Abierta. Background on Nissan’s restructuring is available from the company’s own global site.
