Dozens of delegates and union leaders of judicial employees met this Tuesday in front of the Ministry of Justice, in Lisbon, to demand that the Government fulfill its electoral promises, in terms of remuneration, and admitted resorting to strike.
With black t-shirts they demanded “Justice for those who work there”to the sound of songs by Zeca Afonso, Sérgio Godinho and other intervention singers.
“In Influencer operation, my colleagues worked 14-hour days“, the president of the Union of Judicial Employees (SFJ), António Marçal, told the Lusa agency, when exposing one of the main demands, the payment of overtime.
The same situation occurred with the Praetorian operation, in Portohighlighted, highlighting the work of 12 and 13 hours a day, without remuneration.
“It is the only career in the public administration in which this work is not paid,” he added, arguing that the Portuguese Republic could be condemned before national courts, but also in the European Union.
The workers demand that the procedural recovery supplement be integrated into the due date, which they want to be paid every 14 months, so that, in the event of sick leave, judicial officials do not lose the right to this payment.
At the beginning of the month they described as “ridiculous” the guardianship’s proposal to increase the supplement by 1.66% per month. According to the union leader, it would be enough for a family to buy “four papo-secos a month.”
The proposal to increase the supplement for bailiffs is “unworthy”
At the congress that will be held this weekend, in Anadia, will decide the future forms of strugglewhich could involve strikes identical to those carried out in 2023.
“I don’t leave that aside. We can go back to strike.in which, due to lack of bailiffs, we will list a series of acts that will be left aside, they will simply not be carried out, because we will stop being bakers, we will stop working for three or four,” he warned.
According to António Marçal, the Ministry of Justice did not present any proposal capable of “pacify the sector.”
The president of the SFJ also mentioned that on December 31, 1,500 sheriffs were missing and that this year 458 will retire “due to seniority.” At the beginning of the year, 50 left their careers for other careers, which, in the director’s opinion, constitutes a breaking situation.
Source: Observadora
