The Judicial Employees Union begins a “classic strike” this Wednesday, completely paralyzing until May 5, which “will be much more damaging” than the last strike, and admits extending the fight until July.
“What we are going to demonstrate is that (…) the inaction and repeated illegal conduct by the Ministry of Justice will have a response at the level of judicial officials and now in a classic strike model”, which is “much more detrimental to citizens“, António Marçal, president of the SFJ, told Lusa about the 10 day strike which starts this Wednesday.
The damage to citizens will be greater, he explained, because only the minimum services provided by lawceasing to perform any other act.
“For this very reason, we estimate that the impact of these two weeks of strike will be much greater than what happened in the two-month strike, called atypical strike,” in which judicial employees guaranteed a wide range of services and, in some cases, They even managed to recover service that was delayed, he said.
The union leader said that, with the total strike, which implies loss of remuneration and absenteeism from work, acts such as notifications and summonses will no longer be carried out, necessary to carry out proceedings such as inquiries and trials, so it can be a thousand proceedings and trials what is it again postponed with two weeks of strike.
António Marçal puts the burden of resolving the conflict on the Ministry of Justice (MJ), to whom he assigns the responsibility of responding to union claims, namely, the payment integrated into the salary of the procedural recovery supplement, sent by Minister Catarina Sarmento e Castro to the implementation of the new statute for bailiffs, which is being worked on, and which the SFJ insists that it does not need any statutory regulation to collect.
“[A greve decorre] until May 5th for now. Then, during the next week, maintaining this deafening silence on the part of the Ministry of Justice and the Government, a new day of struggle will be presented until July 15, in which it will not only be strikes, there will be a set of actions that will be carried out carried out by the workers until the government decides to really work and solve the problems”, he told Lusa.
The president of the SFJ also criticized the Minister of Justice for her repeated statements that “this is the year of the bailiffs”, in reference to the multi-year program for hiring and reviewing careers in the sector announced by Catarina Sarmento e Castro.
António Marçal contrasts that “or two justice officers only every year and every day”, when “they have to work until later, in case their colleague is not in place”, or above his professional category without receiving more that’s why.
“If this is the day or the year of the bailiff, then for this party we have already given ourselves up and we demand that the minister stop using platitudes and start working for justice in Portugal,” said António Marçal.
A new meeting is scheduled for Thursday at the MJ, but if the union does not obtain responses from the Government at that meeting, the plenary session on the 28th “will decide what to do as of May 5.”
Source: Observadora
