The Angolan National Police on Monday dispersed a group of inspectors from the province of Luanda, who met with the provincial government of the Angolan capital to demand a salary increase.
The group made up of dozens of inspection agents from all over Luanda province was dispersed by the police, who used tear gas.
Speaking to Lusa on the spot, the president of the Board of Directors of the Supervisory Council of the provincial union of inspectors, Adilson Paulo António, expressed dissatisfaction with the employerhighlighting that, since December 2021, a book of claims has been delivered, with 21 points, which to date has not received any response.
According to Adilson António, they requested a meeting with the employer to address the concerns raised, “but to date there is no contact.”
One of the demands, continued the trade unionist, has to do with holding a public competition for the integration of new employeesstatement that is rejected by the inspection agents, taking into account the high number of employees, who have been working without salary for almost two decades.
“We wrote a letter addressed to the governor, in the sense that instead of making the public tender, we blame our colleagues, who have been here for a long time working with us. We have colleagues for 20 years as employees and without salary, the little that supports the family is based on the help of a friend and we want to change that picture”, said Adilson António, highlighting that there are 600 workers and more than 1,000 are employees.
Adilson António highlighted that this year another letter was sent to the governor of the province of Luanda to materialize the contributions to which he is entitled by law, “which is violated every day”.
“They don’t give us anything, we did a survey and in the last three years we contributed around ten billion kwanzas (23.1 million euros) in fines to the State coffers, and we don’t see that amount, it is law that 50% of that amount is reconverted to the Inspection”, he pointed out.
The trade unionist stressed that since the provincial supervision directorate was extinguished in 2012, inspection agents no longer benefit from this co-payment.
“And when we ask the administrators, they say that it does not depend on them either, that it falls into CUTE [Conta Única do Tesouro do Estado] and who manages is the central government”, he said.
Last April, a new letter was sent to the governor with the decision of a workers’ assembly, in which a strike was decreed between May 23 and 27, which did not receive a response.
“This moment has come and we have concentrated to pressure the boss, we are not working and we are concentrated here in front of the provincial government, because it is the mother entity, responsible for any exercise of administrations and our astonishment is that we are here in a passivity, the The police came to create disturbances unnecessarily, we have injured comrades, with bruises, they fired tear gas and there were even people who were unconscious,” he lamented.
With salaries of 50,000 kwanzas (115.5 euros), the workers demand a salary increase and the network of unpaid employees, a situation that is known to the provincial government, “so the strike is a fact and in the administrations nobody can to work”.
Lusa contacted the Luanda provincial government, which sent some information later.
Source: Observadora
