It is a sign of the times that when a judge orders a Town Hall to increase the wages of rubbish-collection workers, they turn it down.

Limdeco is the name of the rubbish-collection and cleaning company that keeps Motril’s streets clean and it has a problem – A 13-million-euro debt. Consequently, as far as its finances go, it has been in the Intensive Care Unit for years.

As the company is publicly owned, the Motril Town Hall has been busy trying to stop the ‘bleeding,’ trying to reduce costs and pay of the huge debt to Seguridad Social by ‘fractionizing’ the debt; i.e., breaking it down into small payments that chip away at the bulk of it.

To achieve this the workers agreed to drop their salaries by 6%. However, in the meantime, a judge has decided that these workers have the right to receive the money stipulated according to the provincial salary scale… in other words, a 15% increase, as a result of a complaint lodged by some of the Limedeco workers back in 2009 before they came to an agreement with the Town Hall.

So, they are left with the surreal situation where they will most probably have to reject the judge’s findings because if they did not, the company would go bust and they would lose their jobs. However, they are only willing to do this as a temporary measure and will demand that it be put into practice when the stability of the company has improved sufficiently.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)