Striking workers and police clash at airline’s hub

Striking union workers clashed with police at Madrid’s Barajas Airport yesterday on the first day of a week-long strike over more than 3,800 pending job cuts at Spain’s flagship airline Iberia.

Hundreds of workers demonstrated outside Barajas, Iberia’s hub, and inside the airport’s Terminal 4 where they carried out a sit-in and chanted.

Outside the terminal police beat some strikers with truncheons. At least two protesters were arrested.