Civil guards and national police will take to the streets of Madrid again next Saturday to ask the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, that the Government comply with salary equality.
Under the umbrella of the Jusapol platform – a platform made up of National Police and Civil Guard agents of all levels and categories – they will demand that both the civil guards and the national police receive the same salaries as, for example, the Mossos d’ Squad and other regional police officers. “Same salary, same job,” is his chronic complaint.
The protest formed by the group of civil guards Jucil and Jupol, of police, will start at the Puerta de Alcalá at 12 noon on Saturday. And it will be a continuation of another demonstration, the one on March 4, that the platform generated to protest against the reform of the Citizen Security Law, popularly known as the Gag Law.
This historic claim dates back to 1992 and as Agustín Leal, spokesman for Jucil, recalls, “successive governments of Spain have carried it in their electoral program. None have complied with it.”
“It is necessary that all Spaniards know that the salaries of the regional police come out of the State coffers of all citizens and yet we, the police and civil guards of all, are discriminated against in salary year after year of our careers. The Governments have given in and are giving in to political formations that are generally of nationalist or pro-independence overtones in exchange for seats and quotas of power”, claims Leal.
“They deny us that equality with which politicians fill their mouths, for them we do not deserve to be equal. Jusapol, Jucil and Jupol will continue to denounce this ignominy whoever governs governs,” he ditch.
For his part, the general secretary of Jupol, Aarón Rivero, assures that “this demonstration is one of the last opportunities to censure the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and the Government of Pedro Sánchez, the Executive that has been most merciless with National Police and Civil Guard in history”.
Rivero asserts that “this government will continue trying to discredit Jusapol, Jucil and Jupol, they want to dirty us and get us out of the way because they have not been able to buy us and for this reason we must continue our fight in the streets and in the institutions, more united than ever in the fight for Real Salary Equalization and a dignified retirement for all national police officers and civil guards”.
From Jusapol, through its president Miguel Gómez, they indicate that “the existing economic differences are the result of 30 years of abandonment by the Executives, since they have never wanted to recognize our profession in the same way as our regional counterparts. We still do not understand the reasons why the premise of ‘same work, same salary’ does not apply to us, when the National Police and Civil Guard, apart from carrying out commendable work for the citizen, have more powers and our deployment is throughout the territory national”.
The promoters of this demonstration have shown their deep discomfort at the existence “of comparative grievances that differentiate some officials from others despite the fact that they carry out the same work,” says Ernesto Vilariño, Jucil’s general secretary. “With the current calculation system and by way of example only, for those civil guards and police officers who benefit from the old-fashioned method of Passive Classes, 15 years of service mean only 26.92% of the amount of the resulting pension, while in the case of those covered by the General Social Security Regime those same 15 years account for 50%,” Vilariño points out.
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