Workers in La Línea de la Concepción Town Hall decided to down tools on Monday in protest at the lack of payment of their wages.

Some 450 council employees said they were protesting at the difficult economic circumstances they have been suffering for months, and held a sit-in in the provisional offices of the Town Hall in the Palacio de Congresos in the town.

The unpaid council wage bill in the town has now reached 7.5 million € which consists of four months wages and extra payments.
UGT union spokesman, José Porras Naranjo, said the workers had hit bottom, and that there was a ‘situation of no return’ just two months ahead of the local elections. ‘It’s incredible’, he said, how 800 workers had been abandoned to their luck and the Mayor is not worried about absolutely anything’.

The P.P. Mayor, Alejandro Sánchez, has been in Madrid in an attempt to find financing, trying to find a four million € loan from a bank, and said ‘the wages will be paid as all of them have been in the past’.

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