The Council has announced a change to the timetable relating to the collection of waste from the streets, the vehicles now beginning at 10:30 at night rather than the current 00:00.
Changes to rubbish collection service
Rincón de la Victoria is the first municipality to stop night collection of rubbish from containers, a move the Council believes will save them €973,000 per year.
Strike called off in Málaga
The threatened indefinite strike by employees of the Málaga municipal cleaning company Limasa, due to start at 06:00 on Good Friday, has been called off at the last moment after the Mayor, Francisco de la Torre, signed an agreement in principle.
Cleaning strike in Sevilla
The management of Lipasam, the municipal cleaning company in Sevilla, and unions are meeting today at the Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment to discuss minimum service levels during the indefinite strike called as from January 28th.
Granada rubbish strike is over
The strike by rubbish collectors in Granada is over after an agreement was reached between the unions and the municipal concessionaire, Inagra. The task now is to get rid of the 2,300 tons of rubbish littering the streets and this is expected to be completed by the end of the week
Proposed strike action in Sevilla
More than 80% of the workforce of Lipasam, the municipal cleaning service in Sevilla, have voted to begin an indefinite strike as from January 28th.
Indefinite strike planned by cleaning staff in El Ejido, Almeria
Workers at the municipal cleaning company in El Ejido, Almeria, have called an indefinite strike as from January 6th, Three Kings Day, in protest at the non-payment of agreed bonuses for June and December 2012.
On a dark, smelly night…
After contracting out the rubbish collection in numerous municipalities, Councils are now beginning to contract out the municipal electricity supply on the pretext of making large savings. Of course they are going to save money, they rarely pay their debts/suppliers. However, as we have seen recently with the rubbish collection, these debts end up causing crippling strikes which bring the …
1.5 million kilos of rubbish littering the streets of Jerez
After fourteen days of strike action by employees of the municipal cleaning service Urbaser in Jerez, and with one and a half million kilos of garbage uncollected on the streets, representatives of the workers and the concessionaire will meet today to try and reach an agreement on how to implement a 20% reduction in costs.
Investigations into accidents at rubbish collection points in Benalmádena
The CCOO and UGT unions have asked the Public Prosecutor to look into the two accidents at rubbish collection points in Benalmádena in the past ten days, one of which proved fatal.