Stallholders in the Albox weekly market, held on Tuesdays, are up in arms over a hike in the prices they have to pay for their spots in the market. The rise has more than doubled the cost of a place for the more than 200 stallholders, over half of whom are residents of the town. Representatives of the sellers in the market have said that they feel they have been tricked by the town’s mayor, Jesus Carmona, as they were promised in a meeting with him held last autumn that the ayuntamiento had no plans to change either the cost to stallholders or the location of the market, rumours of which were the initial reason for the meeting. An Albox councillor stated that the increase was the equivalent to the annual increase that should have been applied for the last nine years but had not been charged. The cost of a ten metre place in the market now costs 976 euros a year, compared to 420 euros in Garrucha.
The stallholders have been collecting signatures protesting against the ayuntamientos action and have asked for another meeting with the mayor to try to find solutions to the situation. It has been suggested they might hold Japanese style industrial action, working harder than normal to make the bosses look bad, by keeping their stalls operating longer than normal, maybe all day - something which is bound to have some effect on the town centre on Tuesdays.
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