Moroccan Cross-Border Workers Plead for Aid as Spanish PM Visits

It is through a video recording broadcast at the beginning of the week that the general secretary of the Union of these workers, Chakib Marouane, launched this appeal to the two heads of government, to find a solution to the crisis that has been affecting them since the closure of the borders last March, informs Alyaoum24}, specifying that about 3,600 workers, men and women, are concerned.

The trade unionist deplores the lack of any financial assistance, Moroccan or Spanish, to the legally working people who have not benefited from the social assistance granted by the Spanish government during this period, even though Pedro Sanchez had declared that "all legal foreign workers were entitled to it".

Also, he seizes the opportunity of this visit by Pedro Sanchez to Morocco on December 17 to call on the head of the executive Saad Eddin El Othmani to intervene on their behalf. Marouane has broadened his remarks to all the workers who have ceased their activities in this area, estimated at more than 9,000, and have not benefited from the financial support granted by the Moroccan government, also calling for the reopening of the borders for these workers.