Unions file formal complaint after riot police clash with municipal staff in La Línea

Unions file formal complaint after riot police clash with municipal staff in La Línea
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By m.p. - Dec 1, 2009 - 3:21 PM

Alejandro Sánchez, the Mayor of La Línea - EFE

The protests over unpaid wages have ended for the moment with the payment on Tuesday of October's outstanding salaries

There has been increasing tension in La Línea, where staff from the Town Hall have been holding daily protests to demand their wages. A strike which was planned for Tuesday was called off after it was confirmed that the remaining 75% of the October salaries had been transferred into the workers’ bank accounts, but unions have now placed an official complaint against the National Police over incidents which took place at Monday’s protest.

According to a union spokesman quoted by El Mundo newspaper, between 8 and 10 people were injured when riot police charged against the crowd of 200 or so staff who were marching through the streets.

Jesús González Aragón from the Comisiones Obreras union told El País that the protests will continue if the workers have not received their November wages, plus their extra payment for Christmas, by 9th November.

La Línea’s Partido Popular Mayor, Alejandro Sánchez, said when he took over the position last month that his maximum priority was the payment of the municipal wages and called on unions this week to sit down and negotiate the reduction of the workforce. The Mayor claims the unions are fully aware that the Town Hall is over-staffed and know that steps must be taken on the issue to guarantee the council’s budgetary stability.

The Mayor’s predecessor, Juan Carlos Juárez, resigned on 1st October after he was banned from office for six months in the Palex case.

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