The Justice officials who were locked up since Wednesday afternoon in the assembly hall of the Plaza de Castilla courts in Madrid, to demand salary improvements, have been evicted this Friday, without incident and after ordering it by the dean judge of the capital .
As reported to EFE by the strike committee, after noon a National Police agent told the locked up strikers, around fifty, and the people who had come to support them that they had to leave the assembly hall because it had been ordered by the dean judge, María Jesús del Barco.
Del Barco signed a government agreement this Friday ordering the immediate eviction of the assembly hall because two days have passed since a confinement began for which they did not have permission, since what the unions requested was to hold an assembly of 13 :30 to 3:00 p.m., to report on the conflict between Justice officials.
A National Police agent communicated this decision to the imprisoned strikers and several dozen colleagues who supported them, and shortly after, around one in the afternoon, they all left the courthouse without incident, legal sources confirmed to EFE. .
“They have thrown us out and they have not yet negotiated”, they have chanted as they left the doors of the courts with banners asking that their claims be addressed. Dozens of colleagues have expressed their support for the exit.
Comisiones Obreras has reported on the eviction order, explaining that at mid-morning access to the “permanent assembly of workers” that has been taking place since Wednesday has been prohibited.
“Both the senior lady who has given these instructions and the Minister of Justice who refuses to negotiate, are two of the beneficiaries of the classism that has given rise to this conflict, by having increased their salaries, as members of the judicial career , at 450 euros per month, while discriminating against the rest of the judicial civil service bodies, except for the LAJ and prosecutors,” explains Comisiones in a statement.
The union has specified that the confinement of civil servants in judicial headquarters in Murcia, Cartagena and Navarra continues, after those in Barcelona were evicted.
These confinements began spontaneously this Wednesday afternoon at the end of the informative assemblies held by the CSIF, STAJ, CCOO and UGT in judicial offices throughout the country.
45,000 court and tribunal officials have been called on an indefinite strike for a month to demand wage and labor improvements, although their mobilizations began earlier, on April 17.
They ask for between 350 and 430 euros gross per month more in their payrolls for what they consider the recognition of their functions, as well as the negotiation of any new law that affects their working conditions.
