The majority police union does not feel heard by the Ministry of the Interior. JUPOL, which is the majority organization in the National Police Council, explained this Tuesday that its claims are not advancing because the negotiation with the General Directorate is "null and nonexistent."
All the bridges of dialogue, as they denounce, are broken, for which they have declared today the collective conflict before the Ministry directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska. "We are not going to sit idly by in the face of the Government's inaction," the union leaders have warned, advancing that protests and mobilizations will be carried out if no move is made from the Interior.
Aarón Rivero, general secretary of JUPOL - a union that became the majority thanks to its fight for salary equality between police forces - reported at a press conference that the organization has based its collective conflict proposal on three pillars: salary equality, selective processes and working hours. The first of them is their historical claim that they consider incomplete.
And they go further: a change is requested in the operation of the Police Council, since they consider from the union that this tool "only serves as a forum for the Administration to announce its intentions to the union organizations and, as a general rule, not takes into account neither allegations nor proposals”.
The union has put on the table the fact that the salary equality between the National Police, the Civil Guard and the rest of the autonomous police forces "was falsely closed" in 2018. The truth is that, according to data from the Interior, the salary of the members of the State Security Forces and Bodies has increased by an average of 21.5% in three years – from 2018 to 2021-. A period in which the templates have also increased with the creation of 13,000 net positions: 5,000 for the Police and 8,000 for the Benemérita.
Something insufficient for JUPOL, from where they denounce that there are four salary gaps beyond the monthly salary: extraordinary payments, attendance at trials, overtime and the second activity or early retirement.
Rivero has also requested that the 6x6 work shift be definitively implemented. That is: six days of work, six days off, for those units of the National Police that allow these rotations. It is a shift that was implemented with the arrival of the pandemic and is still in force. In the words of the union leader, this organization of human resources has shown, in addition to being viable, that it increases productivity, "and at the same time guarantees the reconciliation of family and work life". What is requested now is that these 6x6 shifts remain permanently.
As for the selection processes, which will be modified in a Royal Decree that is currently in the draft phase, the focus is on the fact that the announced modifications will penalize the professional career due to seniority and put "excessive obstacles" for promotion.
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