A 24-hour strike by employees of Spain´s national rail company Renfe was disrupting rail traffic on Friday, the company said.

The strike was expected to paralyse 1,600 trains out of the total of 5,000 that had been scheduled to run, Renfe representative Enrique Urkijo said.

The strike would affect nearly 43,000 travellers, who would have to take other trains, and might suffer delays, according to Urkijo.

Renfe estimated the initial following of the strike at 11 per cent, while unions put it at 75 per cent.

The strike was protesting a reorganization plan which unions saw as favouring some groups of employees at others expense.

via Monsters and Critics.