They maintain the indefinite strike and announce assemblies to agree on new mobilizations
The Justice officials who were locked up in the Ministry’s headquarters since last Tuesday have left the public building this Friday while they have warned the Government that “the conflict continues in force.”
It was around 5:00 p.m. when the four union representatives who were being held at the Ministry’s headquarters on San Bernardo street took to the streets amid shouts of support from the CSIF, STAJ, CCOO and UGT unions.
“Proud of the strike committee”, the trade unionists have uttered before embracing their colleagues, who have vacated the headquarters of the Ministry visibly tired. It should be remembered that a fifth worker left the building in an ambulance early this Friday due to a medical problem.
“We continue with the demands forward. We continue to demand, the strike will continue. Next week we will hold assemblies throughout Spain where we will compare the situation with the workers and we will make the appropriate decisions to continue with the mobilization process,” he announced. in declarations to the press the general secretary of CCOO for Justice Luis Calero, one of the workers locked up.
Calero, who has acted as a spokesman for the union associations, has criticized that Justice has “neglected its obligations” and has chosen to punish the workers.
“How can they continue to have civil servants on strike, the courts clogged and delaying to already unsustainable limits, and the citizens harmed because their judicial affairs are not working and they do not even carry out an act that is their duty to meet and negotiate a solution to the conflict? ?”, he wondered.
In his opinion, the current “team” has “demonstrated its inability to negotiate and the Government or its president has to designate new interlocutors who are capable of negotiating.” “Because those who have the Ministry of Justice are incapable”, he has settled her.
It was this afternoon when the strike committee – made up of the CSIF, STAJ, CCOO and UGT unions – announced through a press release that the decision to end the confinement had been taken unanimously.
In this line, they indicate that, “maintaining the call for an indefinite strike, in the first days of next week” they will hold assemblies in the workplaces throughout Spain “to join forces of the collective and transfer the joint proposal of mobilizations that, during the weekend, the four trade union organizations calling the strike” will adopt and submit to the criteria and decision of the workers.
“They have never had any intention of negotiating the just and reasonable demands of the workers, and instead, they have always placed themselves in confrontation with who represents the social base in the Administration of Justice, while they accepted and consolidated the demands of judicial elites”, have criticized the unions.
In this context, they explain that “this situation, preceded by decades of lack of professional recognition in a saturated Administration, lack of personal and material means in which work and workers’ rights have been neglected, has been the trigger for a strong mobilization that has no turning back”.
“If the Ministry of Justice in the meeting on June 6 sought its interest, explicitly expressed, that during the electoral campaign there would be ‘calm’, that is, that the Justice personnel park their protests, it has been flatly wrong. “, they warn.
On the contrary, they add, the workers “are going to be more united and firmer than ever in the objective of not admitting more discrimination, more classism, or that their work and functions continue without professional and retributive recognition.”
This same Friday the strike committee filed a complaint against the minister, Pilar Llop, and against the Secretary of State, Antonio ‘Tontxu’ Rodríguez, for breaching their “obligation” to negotiate a raise before the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office (TS). salary in line with that agreed with the Lawyers of the Administration of Justice (LAJ), judges and prosecutors, of about 430 per month.
In addition, the Committee itself has accused Justice of “mistreating” its negotiators for restricting their movements inside the building and preventing food from being brought to them from outside.
FRUSTRATED NEGOTIATION
Last Tuesday, the negotiations were frustrated for the third time -they had already been unsuccessful on two other occasions in April- after the Ministry refused to make an economic offer to respond to the request for a rise of up to 430 euros gross per month. that the officials demand.
Although the strike committee presented a counter-offer the same Tuesday in which it reiterated its requests, Justice finally opted to commit to continue negotiating after the general elections scheduled for July 23. Officials considered the proposal “absolutely insufficient and a mockery after a month and a half of the strike.”
In a statement issued that same night, the unions shamed the Secretary of State for Justice for having “abruptly abandoned” the negotiating table, “refusing to negotiate union proposals.”
This Thursday, in a new statement, the strike committee assured that Justice had informed them that it had no “intention to negotiate.” Ministerial sources have insisted to Europa Press that from Llop’s team the negotiation and dialogue environment is kept open and they have stressed that it was the unions that rejected the Ministry’s proposal to sign a “commitment” to “resume” the talks ” once the new central and regional governments have been constituted”.
The unions are requesting a salary increase of up to 430 euros per month for the 45,000 officials, in line with what was agreed with the LAJ and with judges and prosecutors. In absolute figures, the increases translate into 46.7 million euros for the 8,000 members of the judicial and prosecutorial career and 22.7 million euros for the LAJ. Both amounts remain below the 200 million euros required by officials.
In addition, the strike committee requested that the processing of the Organizational Efficiency Law be paralyzed, which, according to the organizers, the Ministry wanted to “impose, without negotiating”, putting “at risk jobs, destinations, voluntary mobility, special remuneration and specific functions”. The truth is that after the announcement of early elections, said law has been paralyzed with the dissolution of the Cortes Generales.
