The committee figures the follow-up of the protests at 78%, while the Ministry lowers that figure to 25.52%
MADRID, 20 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Lawyers of the Administration of Justice (LAJ) have denounced this Monday that the negotiation with the Ministry led by Pilar Llop “continues to run aground” almost a month after the start of the indefinite strike, which began on January 24, and they have criticized that “a new meeting to find a solution to the conflict” has not been called.
In a statement, the LAJs have shamed the Secretary of State for Justice, Tontxu Rodríguez, of his “zero negotiating will” after the marathon meeting on Thursday in which an agreement was not reached and they have explained that, over the weekend, The strike committee has worked “on formulas that unravel the serious conflict” with the Ministry and that, in no case, “exceed the initial claims, nor those accepted by Justice in the month of April.”
“Nobody, neither public opinion, nor legal operators, nor political parties, nor citizens, can understand that, almost a month later, Minister Pilar Llop, or in her case the Government of Spain, does not take the reins of this matter, before the unprecedented damage that is taking place in the Administration of Justice”, have lamented the lawyers, who have asked the head of Justice to comply with the “honest dialogue” that she promised in Congress.
Thus, the Progressive Union of Lawyers of the Administration of Justice (UPSJ), the Independent Association of Lawyers (AinLAJ) and the Illustrious National College of Lawyers have estimated the monitoring of the indefinite strike during this day at 78%, while the The Ministry has lowered that figure to 25.52%.
Last Thursday, the meeting between the Ministry of Justice and the Associations of Lawyers of the Administration of Justice (LAJ) calling for the indefinite strike ended, after more than 15 hours, without an agreement and with mutual reproaches between the parties for maintaining immovable positions. . Both agreed to accuse the other of turning citizens into hostages.
The Secretary of State for Justice, Tontxu Rodríguez, who has led the negotiation on behalf of the Ministry, blamed the lawyers for their maximalist position and recalled that they are not workers “who want to make ends meet” but are “people privileged” who charge between 40,000 and 60,000 euros. He also recalled that they had a 14 percent salary increase this year.
For his part, the spokesman for the strike committee, Juan José Yáñez, made it ugly that Justice “had no intention of reaching an understanding, they only repeatedly demanded that the strike end.” “We presented ourselves with documentation, with numbers and proposals, and an open mind, but the Ministry did not bring anything,” he criticized, while regretting that for Llop’s department the 85 percent salary adjustment is a red line, and that During the meeting, they only agreed to study the increase by population groups, “when it was something already approved in the negotiations in April of last year.”
The indefinite strike reaches its 20th day as a result of the conflict that has its origin in “the lack of salary adaptation to the greater functions and responsibilities attributed by Law 13/2009, discharged to judges, and increased in successive reforms”, 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 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.
On the sidelines, the director of the cabinet of the Presidency of the Government, Óscar López, told the LAJ that they are “an essential piece” of the Judiciary and expressed his “confidence” that the negotiations with the Ministry “can conclude in a reasonable agreement and satisfying.”
