Gijón (EFE).- The Secretary of State for Justice, Tontxu Rodríguez, has expressed confidence today that “good sense” will prevail and that the lawyers of the Justice Administration (LAJ) who began an indefinite strike on January 24 , put an end to a strike led by some “privileged” workers.
“I hope and I would like them to come to their senses and definitively suspend this indefinite strike,” said Rodríguez, who warned that this protest is really hurting Spanish citizens, the image of justice and legal operators.
In statements to journalists in Gijón before participating in the presentation of a laboratory to advance towards the digitization of justice, Rodríguez has indicated that he hopes that the lawyers will attend the meeting scheduled for this Friday “with the intention of trying to end this strike ” since the position of the Government has not changed.
Rodríguez has described as “marathon and Kafkaesque” the unsuccessful meeting held last week for fifteen hours by representatives of the Ministry of Justice and the lawyers’ strike committee in which they maintained postulates that have “purely economic issues.”
In addition, he has criticized that every time the lawyers sit down to negotiate “they bring a new proposal and change the playing field, so that they do not always play with the same rules.”
The so-called judicial clerks request a down payment clause to the law on the remuneration of judges and prosecutors to never charge less than 85% with respect to these two legal operators, provided they have the same seniority, and that their salary is not less in the small populations. They also require obtaining their own collective bargaining scope.
For its part, the Ministry maintains that only one of the eleven demands raised by the associations remains to be met – the review of the productivity supplement – and considers their salary requests out of place when their salaries are going to grow on average by 14.76%. in three years. EFE
