Jan 22 – Frontier Workers Queue Pass Scheme “A Total Failure”
The plan to issue cross-border workers with a special pass that would allow them to use the red lane to “fast-track” their transit though the Gib-Spain frontier has been described as a total failure after it was revealed that only 100 workers have signed up. This would only represent a tiny fraction of the thousands of workers who cross over every day.
This figure was provided by the Agencia Tributaria in response to parliamentary questions tabled in Madrid.
When the proposal was announced last July, unions and politicians on both sides of the border said it was a potentially discriminatory measure.
Salvador Molina, the president of ASTECG, is quoted by El Pais rejecting the scheme by calling it a “nonsensical proposal that wouldn’t work.”
