Protests as Marbella Town Hall approves 2008 budget
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By h.b. - Nov 23, 2007 - 8:55 AM
Civil servants face a series of cutbacks in the new figures

Marbella Town Hall last night approved new austere budgets for next year, despite protests from civil servants and other council workers.

A group of workers demonstrated outside the debating chamber shouting ‘Negotiation, not imposition’, causing a 15 minute interruption in the proceedings. Police had to be called to evict the protestors from the chamber.

The budgets were passed with the Partido Popular overall majority.

Among the measures the council workers are angry about is the cancelling of their private health cover, which has been a council perk for the past 13 years.

A series of redundancies and overtime restrictions are also expected to be enforced.

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