The strike of lawyers from the Administration of Justice is nearing its end. 76 percent of the former judicial secretaries have agreed this Monday in the assemblies held in all parts of the country to accept the proposal put on the table by the team of the Minister of Justice Pilar Llop, through which the Government intends to put an end to an indefinite strike that started almost two months ago.
The agreement that is expected to be closed tomorrow at the Ministry includes a salary increase of between 430 and 450 euros, according to sources familiar with the negotiation carried out with Justice.
As reported by the National College of Lawyers of the Administration of Justice, the majority support “supports the strike committee so that tomorrow, at the meeting scheduled with the Ministry at 11:00 a.m., the agreement that ends the strike can be signed (…) once some terms of the final agreement that remain to be qualified are clarified”.
This Monday, as announced last Friday, assemblies have been held throughout the country in which “detailed accounts” of the Ministry’s proposal to the LAJ have been given. The National College has shown its “satisfaction with the development, without any incident, of this voting day.”
Of the 2,028 votes cast, 1,530 -representing 76%- have been in favour; 418 against and 81 abstentions -3%-, according to data released by the Strike committee.
This body has indicated that “this majority support backs the strike committee so that tomorrow, at the meeting scheduled at the Ministry of Justice at 11 a.m., the agreement can be signed to end the indefinite strike of Lawyers of the Administration of Justice, once some terms of the final agreement that remain to be qualified are clarified”.
The agreement seems to come after more than two months of strike in which, according to data from the convening associations, some 356,000 trials and hearings have been suspended, some 424,000 lawsuits have been stopped and the consignment accounts have remained stopped until 1,280 million euros.
In these nine weeks, the convening associations -the Progressive Lawyers Union (UPSJ), the Illustrious National College of LAJ and the Independent Association of Lawyers (AInLAJ)- have registered a participation of between 85% and 73%, while the Ministry has observed between 33.92% and 18.9% follow-up, reports Europa Press.
Since January 24, the LAJ demonstrated on two occasions at the doors of the Ministry to demand that they be compensated on the payroll for the workload assumed in recent years; They called for the resignation of the Secretary of State for Justice, Antonio Tonxtu Rodríguez, and that of the minister herself.
During the strike, the head of the Ministry recalled the measures adopted in the last year in favor of the LAJ and asked the strike committee to move away from “maximalist” positions and to present “realistic” proposals. The Secretary of State went so far as to say that it was a “political” strike that did not pursue any wage claim and stressed that they already earned between 40,000 and 60,000 euros a year.
The climax of the conflict took place after the first meeting this year. That February 17, both parties sat at the table for more than 15 hours – including early morning – and got up with mutual reproaches for maintaining immovable positions.
The path traveled has led them to the meeting that will take place tomorrow Tuesday, where it is expected to end the struggle that -beyond the indefinite strike and the demonstrations this year- accumulated specific strikes in 2021 and 2022.
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