The LAJ assure that due to the stoppage, a million resolutions have stopped being issued since last January 24
MADRID, 3 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Associations of Lawyers of the Administration of Justice (LAJ) convening the indefinite strike that began on January 24 have indicated that the follow-up on this ninth day has been 85%, while the Ministry of Justice has estimated participation in 30.6%.
Thus, the LAJ maintain the percentage reached yesterday Thursday and the department directed by Pilar Llop lowers the monitoring data with respect to the previous day. So far, the convening associations had estimated between 73% and 85% follow-up. The Ministry had registered a participation of between 18.9% and 33.92%.
In a statement issued this Friday, the three associations –the Progressive Union of Lawyers of the Justice Administration (UPSJ), the Independent Association of Lawyers (AinLAJ) and the Illustrious National College of Lawyers– have assured that since the beginning of the strike have not received any communication from the Ministry to address the conflict.
“We still have no news of any kind from Minister Pilar Llop, from whom we hope, since she does not meet her obligations, that she is at least in good health,” said the signatories of the statement, while adding that the Secretary of State for Justice, Antonio ‘Tontxu’ Rodríguez, “seems to be in no rush to resolve the conflict, nor is he willing to convene the strike committee immediately.”
According to the data handled by the associations, due to the break, one million resolutions have stopped being issued since January 24.
In line, they have assured that they continue to “gather support” for their claims with “meetings with the president of the Assembly of the Community of Madrid, Eugenia Carballedo Berlanga, and with the Minister of Justice of the Community of Madrid, Enrique López, among other responsible politicians”.
The indefinite strike reaches its ninth day as a result of the conflict that has its origin in “the lack of salary adjustment to the greater functions and responsibilities attributed by Law 13/2009, discharged to the judges, and increased in successive reforms”, in especially that of 2015, which — they denounce — has caused an “unbearable imbalance”.
The conveners point out as a “trigger” of the conflict the agreement that Justice signed in December 2021 with the unions of the general bodies “without properly developing the salary adjustment to the latest procedural reforms provided for in the second paragraph of Additional Provision 157 of the Law 11/2020 of the General State Budget for 2021”.
Before the strike began, Llop asked the strike committee to avoid “maximalist positions” because they prevented “good agreements”. For his part, the Secretary of State for Justice, Antonio ‘Tontxu’ Rodríguez, assured that the LAJ strike was a “political” measure and that it was “out of place”.
Rodríguez stressed that “any type of economic claim that takes place in this strike does not make sense”, since the Ministry “has complied with all the agreements” reached with the representation of these workers.
This Friday, in statements to the press in Zaragoza, the Secretary of State has asked the LAJ “to realize the damage they are doing” with the strike they are maintaining. Likewise, he has considered that it is a “chance” that the indefinite strikes take place this week and this year, despite the fact that, according to the workers themselves, “they have been very angry since 2009.”
“The right to strike is in the Constitution and it seems perfect to me, but citizens are being seriously harmed,” pointing out that appointments scheduled for months of weddings or procedures that have been open for four or five years are being postponed.
On the sidelines, this week the director of the cabinet of the Presidency of the Government, Óscar López, has transmitted to the LAJ that they are “an essential piece” of the Judiciary and has expressed his “confidence” that the negotiations with the Ministry “can conclude in a reasonable and satisfactory agreement”.
In a letter sent to a member of the strike committee, to which Europa Press has had access, López has valued the work of the lawyers and has emphasized that for this reason “the Government, through the Ministry of Justice, Only last 2022, it launched the reform of the specific complement and two programs to improve the remuneration of the members of the body in terms of tickets and registrations, and in terms of substitutions”.
This is how they have pronounced themselves from Moncloa before the letter that three LAJ associations sent to President Pedro Sánchez to ask him to adopt the “necessary measures” to redirect the conflict that he maintains with the Ministry and avoid the indefinite strike that began on Tuesday, January 24.
