Madrid (EFE).- Thousands of national police officers, civil guards and prison officials took to the streets this Saturday in Madrid to demand salary equality with the regional security forces and “decent” retirement pensions, as well as to denounce the “discrimination” that, according to they maintain, they suffer from the administrations with respect to their colleagues in the local and regional police.
Convened by the organization for salary justice Jusapol and the majority unions in the sector, Jupol and Jucil, of the National Police and Civil Guard respectively, and supported by the civil servants union CSIF, the protesters, 80,000 according to the organization of the protest, have made notice from the Puerta de Alcalá with whistles, horns and flares.
They have also sung chants such as “salary justice” and have carried banners with slogans such as “we defend what is ours”, in a protest in which dozens of flags of Spain and autonomous regions such as Asturias or Galicia have been seen.
Miguel Gómez, president of Jusapol, has demanded the “real and total equalization for national police and civil guards against the regional police” because “we still do not have the same salaries”, and has indicated that “the most serious thing” is that these differences , which have been “ballasting” the body for 30 years, also suffer when they retire.
“They (the regional police officers) will be able to retire six years before us, at 59, without losing purchasing power, with the maximum retirement; us, six years later and losing more than 1,000 euros per month. We have plenty of reasons to continue fighting ”, he summarized in statements to EFE.
He has also assured that “there is no type of dialogue” with the Government when it comes to finding a solution to this situation.
For his part, Aaron Rivero, Jupol’s general secretary, has denounced that “all the regional police officers have recognized their status as a risky profession”, while the National Police and the Civil Guard, carrying out the same work, “we do not have that recognition ”.
The general secretary of Jucil, Ernesto Vilariño, has accused the Government of raising the banner of “discrimination” against the Civil Guard, while at the same time calling the passive class regime “archaic” and calling for a regulatory change in this regard. .
As detailed by the convening unions in a note, the passive class regime rewards those who joined the body before 2011, who receive higher retirement benefits than those who entered after that date and who must benefit from the general Security regime. Social.
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