Judges and prosecutors meet to negotiate a salary increase to avoid the indefinite strike

Judges and prosecutors will meet this Wednesday with the Ministry of Justice, as part of the Remuneration Table meeting, to negotiate a salary update to prevent the strike indefinite time they have already called as of May 16.

The decision of the General Council for the Judiciary (CGPJ) to put this proposal on the Remuneration Table, convened for next Wednesday at 11:00 a.m., will take place after last April 24 The Professional Association of the Magistracy (APM), the Francisco de Vitoria Judicial Association (AJFV) and the Independent Judicial Forum (FJI) said in a statement that if no salary improvement agreement was reached They would go on strike.

In the same statement, the progressive associations Judges and Judges for Democracy (JJpD) and the Progressive Union of Prosecutors (UPF) shared the diagnosis and the need for improvements to break the “current stagnation” of the judicial system, but they distanced themselves from the strike threat whereas it is “opportune” to wait for this Wednesday’s meeting.

For the formalization of the call for an indefinite strike, government sources denied the convening associations said move because they felt it showed they didn’t believe in the Retribution Table and all that they had no “intention of dialogue”, but a “political purpose”.

If it goes ahead, the strike by judges and prosecutors in 2023 would be the third in Justice to date. The lawyers of the Administration of Justice (LAJ) were on break for two months until they reached a salary increase of up to 450 euros per month.

So things, Officials plan to demonstrate at noon on Thursday, May 4 for the Ministry of Justice in Madrid. In addition, they have decided to indefinitely change the form of the strike and move away from it partial breaks of three hours per day to total interruptions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday This week.