The consumer association FACUA has denounced to the City Council of Bilbao and Kontsumobide the organising company of the festival BBK Live, Last Tour. It prohibited the entrance of food and drink from the outside, as well as payment in cash, according to FACUA the dedication of the festival is music and not the hospitality activity.

In addition, he stresses that within the festival food and beverages had very high prices. In the networks, a user hung the following price table:

On the other hand, Last Tour established a cashless wristband payment system, the only way to make payments within the area. FACUA says that the lack of cash payment violates the Civil Code and the Consumer and User Statute Act of the Basque Country.

CNT denounces labor fraud case at Pirata Beach Festival in Valencia

As the union said, the festival’s organizing company, Black Lotus S.L., has used volunteers who have not received remuneration for their work to “reduce staff costs and social security contributions”, which “can be fraud”.

They say that the volunteer and the hired person were doing the same, against the law. In addition, the workers have denounced the exploitation. Lucia Navarro, who was working at the festival, has denounced that “on the bar we were between 10 and 12 hours a day and we only had 20 minutes of rest”. Some have claimed that they have paid in black or have paid half of the working day. “Slavery was conditions,” Navarro said.