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Union demonstration brings chaos to Granada
By h.b. - Nov 20, 2008 - 7:38 AM
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Members of the SAT union have taken over the offices of the BBVA bank and spent the night there.
There was chaos in the centre of Granada yesterday as some 400 members of the SAT, Andalucian Workers Union, took over the offices of the BBVA bank in Plaza Isabel La Católica at midday.
An hour earlier another group had taken over the offices of the Osuna real estate company in Puerto Real.
The earlier group eventually left the premises but the demonstration at the BBVA continued all afternoon and reports say stayed inside the bank offices overnight.
The union members are demanding that the banks be nationalised and more help for workers. The demonstration led to traffic being cut in the city centre, causing traffic chaos and bus services being brought to a halt.
Ideal newspaper reports that the demonstration is organised by charismatic union leaders Diego Cañamero and Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, and that most of the protestors come from the Sevilla province countryside. They boarded buses organised by the union yesterday, with no idea where they were going, or what they were being asked to do, according to the newspaper.