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The prison unions threaten to reactivate the strikes in the prisons if the Ministry of the Interior does not immediately approve the Penitentiary Public Function Law with which, broadly speaking, they intend to tie a salary increase and a modernization of the civil service body .

It is a chronic claim that emerged in 2017 and that, four years and three governments later, remains unsolved.

The groups have put mobilization on the table as a measure of pressure in the face of what they consider a "blockade" by Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, whom they reproach for not fulfilling the commitment that, according to the group, he contracted last December.

The unions ACAIP-UGT, CIG and CSIF insist that the Ministry set a deadline in the first quarter of this year to implement the regulations.

In the opinion of the representatives of the prison workers, the draft of the law that has been put on the table is insufficient.

The document, they point out, is more of a declaration of intentions that, they add, "a reality."

They did not like the sketch they received because, they insist, it does not delve into the main problems of the group.

Interior does not comply

The regulations were addressed in a working group, created last July, which sought to recognize the specificities of prison officials and an improvement in their working conditions.

The last contact with Interior took place on December 3, when the unionists assure that Grande-Marlaska himself informed them that the law would be completed in the first quarter of 2021.

However, Interior has not complied with the dates, nor, they denounce, with the content that they agreed to.

Before setting a schedule of mobilizations in the country's prisons, the unions ask for a meeting to bring their positions closer together.

"We deserve public recognition of the constitutional work that we carry out, something that is not included in the norm presented by the Administration," they conclude.

Strikes in 2018

The unions started a collective dispute in April 2017. In the absence of responses, in October and November 2018 they paralyzed prison routines with a chain of simultaneous strikes in all prisons in the country.

The follow-up was massive and the message was the same: "The need to address a real negotiation" for their demands.

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