Madrid (EFE) the new Executive after the elections.
CSIF, STAJ, CCOO and UGT have informed this Tuesday in a statement that they will cease the indefinite strike, although they will maintain two days of general strike in the middle of the electoral campaign, on July 11 and 20, as they remember that the conflict continues.
“The new government already knows that it has a problem to solve as soon as it takes office,” warn the unions, who denounce that since their mobilizations began on April 17, they have not received any proposal to open a negotiation process from a Ministry of Justice “castled and on the defensive.”
As the conflict continues, the strike committee “does not accept that any action and recovery program be put in place” and recommends to the staff that, if there are any, they do not accept them until a “substantive solution” of the problem is reached. affair.
The officials, who decided by a large majority to maintain the strike after the early call for elections for July 23, now justify their decision by the vacation period, which, they say, has caused in recent days a “logical decrease in monitoring of the indefinite strike motivated by the need for rest and in many cases also by the need for conciliation”.
Downward trend in unemployment support
A downward trend in support for the strike is added to the “economic exhaustion that such a far-reaching mobilization entails,” the unions acknowledge.
Since they began on April 17, the mobilizations have caused the suspension of nearly two million trials and the paralysis of more than 20 million procedural actions.
“The great public repercussion of the mobilizations is proof that we have the support of society, but the calendar has played in favor of those who flee through the back door,” maintains the strike committee, which reproaches the department of Pilar Llop and the Government in general for its lack of negotiation during the conflict.
Likewise, they criticize the Ministry for agreeing with lawyers from the administration of Justice first and with judges and prosecutors later, but for not having recognized the “real functions and role” that should correspond to the 45,000 officials of the general and special forces.
They ask for a salary increase of between 350 and 430 euros
The unions are asking, specifically, for a salary increase of between 350 and 430 euros gross per month, as well as the negotiation of any new law that affects their working conditions, such as those of efficiency that have not finally seen the light of day in this legislature.
Before announcing the postponement of the strike, CSIF, STAJ, CCOO and UGT sent a letter to the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, and to the Vice President of the European Commission, Věra Jourová, to denounce the “contempt for collective bargaining” of the government during their conflict.
The members of the strike committee ask them in this text to take an interest in the situation and to demand that the Executive negotiate an “agreed solution” that allows solving the conflict and restoring normality in the activity of courts and tribunals, as read in the letter to which EFE has had access this Tuesday.
The union representatives inform the European leaders that the Ministry of Justice has not responded to their demands, has shown “terrible management” and an “absolute lack of willingness to negotiate.”
“This attitude of the Government of Spain is not typical of a democratic government and is contrary to the values and objectives of the European Union reflected in the Treaties to which our country is a party”, they underlined in the letter.
The civil servants maintain the general strike on July 11 and 20, when they will stage, respectively, a rally in front of the Moncloa Palace and a protest act yet to be defined coinciding with the informal meeting of Justice and Interior Affairs ministers of the European Union in Logroño.