The Local Spain https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Spanish workers celebrate victory over Coca-Cola factory closure To cheers and applause, 220 employees are celebrating their return to work at a Coca-Cola factory near Madrid after they blocked its closure in court, marking a rare legal victory for workers in Spain where one in five people are out of work. https://www.thelocal.es/20151025/spanish-workers-celebrate-victory-over-coca-cola Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:23:42 +0100 spanish-workers-celebrate-victory-over-coca-cola Workers get a raise after 3 years of frozen wages An agreement was signed between Spanish workers' unions and employer organisations that will see salaries raised for the first time in three years. https://www.thelocal.es/20150608/workers-get-a-raise-after-3-years-of-frozen-wages Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:38:34 +0200 workers-get-a-raise-after-3-years-of-frozen-wages Spanish builders made 'slaves' by German firm Wages below the legal minimum, contracts in a language they don't understand and blackmail tactics to keep them quiet: just some of the problems a group of Spanish builders in Holland contracted by a German firm have decided to speak out against. https://www.thelocal.es/20140414/spanish-builders-conditions-enslaved-german-employer Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:38:00 +0200 spanish-builders-conditions-enslaved-german-employer