The strike that Justice officials are carrying out this Friday throughout Spain in protest against the reform of the Law of the Judicial Power has left "a Court closed" in Lanzarote and the rest functioning "with minimum services", according to the union delegate of UGT, Alberto Pérez, who has estimated the follow-up of the strike on the island "around 60 or 70 percent".
"The Social Court number 1 has no activity and there are no Courts in which there are more than four people," Pérez pointed out, who nevertheless pointed out that in some such as the Duty Court or the gender violence court they were "obliged to be all".
"But today only urgent work will be done," added the UGT delegate in the Courts of Lanzarote, who explained that in the Judicial Palace of Lanzarote there are "around 150 officials". "If we take out the minimum services, we are left with about 100 at most to go on strike and there are about 70," said Alberto Pérez, who has been happy with the follow-up of the strike in Lanzarote. "It's the first time I've seen so many people," he said
No to forced mobility
In the case of Lanzarote, the mobilizations against the judicial reform began last Wednesday, November 7 with daily half-hour stoppages that were expected to extend until November 22, the day on which the draft reform of the Organic Law of the Judicial Power, which was already approved in Congress, is expected to pass its procedure in the Senate. However, the UGT delegate in the Courts of Lanzarote points out that this procedure could now be delayed until December 11, so, after the general strike this Friday, the calendar of concentrations could be modified.
Although there are several aspects of the reform of the Law of the Judicial Power with which the officials are against, Alberto Pérez explains that "the biggest" is the reform of article 521. "Because we no longer have a destination. That is, I am now assigned to the Social Court number 1 and if I do not apply for a transfer competition, it is my final destination, but with the new reform they can send you one month to a Court and another to others," explained Alberto Pérez.
In fact, the officials who this Thursday have concentrated before the doors of the Courts of Arrecife carried banners in which it was read 'No to forced mobilization'. And, according to the UGT delegate, this will mean "a serious damage not only for the officials, but for the citizens". "Because if I go to a Court that I do not know, I will take a while to have it controlled," he concluded.
