There were problems with access to Gibraltar on Wednesday as union representatives in La Línea restarted protests to demand the unpaid wages of Town Hall staff, ending the truce which had been in place for the town’s feria.
The road to Gibraltar was closed for around an hour as the protesters set up a barricade of burning tyres.
Unions say they are owed an average of 6,000 € each. José Porras Naranjo from the UGT union said they had been forced to take this action because the situation for some of the staff is so serious that they have had to ask for help from the Catholic Church charity Cáritas.
He commented to El Mundo newspaper that, ‘although we know that a large part of the problem is inherited’, from the previous local government, ‘if we reach the end of the month without being paid it will be a record delay of 3 months without receiving even one Euro’. Many staff are also owed their extra payment for December.
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