“ Not limiting the duties that the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice can perform during their indefinite strike (LAJ) created a ‘nobody’s land’ in some cases allowing Obstructing the work of justice officials under the umbrella of “everything goes through my hands” creating in some cases situations that we might consider harassment”.
Like this UGT complaint account of conscience according to the union many courts in the province and in all judicial bodies. As they pointed out, something that could have been avoided by defining the functions that admins and handlers had to perform and which they came back to this Wednesday, could have been avoided. Justice Department requests new concentration before Benalúa courts called by all unionized with representation in this sector of public services.
From the UGT, respecting the LAJ’s right to strike (yesterday the province has a follow-up of 77%. According to the organizers of the meetingLaws of Justice points to 25.5% at state level) “going attention No pressure was exerted by the said organ on the General Staff personnel who wanted to carry out exercises, Working freely is a constitutional right.
In the union’s view, this strike demonstrates the urgent need to “clear, unequivocally and concisely limit the functions of each organ, and above all of the other organs of the LAJ entrusted with its execution by the general”. for this, he will request the gathering of the sectoral table.
“Solution Intent”
HE strike committee LAJ assures that they will attend the meeting scheduled for Friday at the Ministry of Justice together. “will to resolve” and “willingness” to be there all weekend if needed The AP said it wanted to reach an agreement that ended the indefinite strike that began on January 24, as it sought salary improvements to compensate for the increase in workload.
Committee spokesperson, Juan Jose Yanez He added that they are willing. Talk to the ministry headed by Pilar Llop as needed» and that they are not “radical” and “willing to seek alternatives”.
Friday’s will be the second meeting after almost a month of indefinite strike. scheduled to start It starts at 10:30 and ends at 12:00.. Inside first they got up 15 hours later with mutual reproaches.
The committee is surprised that the call is before the meeting. Manuel Olmedo, Secretary General for Innovation and Quality in the Public Justice ServiceInstead of Tontxu Rodríguez, Minister of State for Justice, and realized that an hour and a half, which “seems insufficient to resolve such a trapped conflict.”
Gatherers stated that “the purpose of the meeting is not just extenderAs we feared, and that it was only intended to justify something that absolutely cannot be justified and that no one can understand: there has only been one meeting since the conflict began a month ago,” he said in the afternoon.
Inside first press conference At the call of the strike committee, the lawyers explained why they had been on strike for about a month. “We are a prudent body We don’t like being in the spotlight. We love being in our offices. We don’t like to hold press conferences. But we have dignity, and that’s what they’re touching.”they have stated.
Indefinite strike ends day number 22 as a result of the conflict that originated “Lack of salary adequacy for the larger assigned duties and responsibilities”. As they stated, they are requesting adaptations for the additional workload given to them since 2009, which they say has not yet arrived and they say they feel “cheated” by the ministry.
“We were deceived”
“We are on strike because they deceived us”at least three times. For the first time in 2009, cWe were then told that we would take on many roles and that we would be paid for this responsibility. Functions came and expanded, and others came. What didn’t come was the moment of adaptation. We were still the same. Yáñez told the media that no one has any intention of adapting us.
During, he added, although in 2020 In accordance with the 2021 law, they managed to bring the salary adequacy to the norm, “It was neither appropriate nor fair.” He therefore recalled that they called for a strike for several days and canceled the strike in April 2022 when the Ministry promised them improvements, including a prepayment provision for judges. “We asked in writing. They sent it to us in writing and we canceled the strike (…) It was a hoax,” they added.
As they reported, this dealSuppressing groups IV and V and recognizing the so-called prepayment clause for judges that would allow them to earn a salary equivalent to 85% of a judge’s salary when they currently earn about 65% or 70%. “But September came and nothing was done. Then we started asking for explanations. They didn’t call us or answer our calls anymore.”
This Wednesday, the LAJ strike committee made the agreement and related publication available on the Ministry of Justice website on April 4, 2022. Llop “considered the improvement proposal positively. consists in relating their salaries in proportion to those of their judicial career”.
In the context of the press conference, they vilified Justice that they “didn’t do much to ease tensions or find understanding”. “They said we were on a political strike and implied that our strike had something to do with the scourge of terrorism,” he added.
LAJ asks minister directly and personally involved in conflict resolution to ensure ‘honest dialogue’ he promised in Congress a few days ago that he could resolve this situation with good negotiation intent”. Head of Government Pedro Sánchez, “To order the appropriate to resolve the most serious problem facing the Administration of Justice in Spain.”
Tontxu Rodríguez: “End a privileged strike”
HE Tontxu Rodríguez, Minister of State for Justice, trust that “sanity” and Justice Administration (LAJ) attorneys put an end to the strike led by some “privileged” workers. Rodríguez hopes that lawyers will attend the meeting scheduled for this Friday “with the aim of trying to end this strike.” The government’s attitude has not changed “at that time Jevery time they sit down to negotiatethey introduce a new offer and change the playing field so you don’t always play by the same rules”, The Minister of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly “political” strike which is out of place. After his first meeting with the strike committee, he recalled: They are not workers who “want to make a living”. but they “Privileged people earning between 40,000 and 60,000 euros”. He also reminded them that they have. 14% increase in salary this year.