MALLORCA TODAY - Medical union threatens Balearics strike over repayments

The medical union in the Balearics has announced that it will order a strike of medical workers if members are obliged to return additional salary payments that were made by the previous government and which avoided a strike threat in 2008. The Balearics Supreme Court subsequently in 2010 declared that the agreement by which these payments were made was null but the decision was not applied by the previous administration. This has led the current government to invite anti-corruption prosecutors to investigate possible misappropriation of funds and abuse of public office by the former health minister. The payments are said to total over 76 million euros.