It has taken six months for the General Directorate of the Police (DGP) to convene the unions again to discuss the new working day. Extension after extension, the problem continues without any signs of a solution, since, as the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP) denounces, the apathy and “contempt” of the Interior does not help. Furthermore, they consider that This “invitation” is nothing more than a screen to hide the lack of progress on more priority issues such as dignified retirement, declaration of risk profession, salary equalization or provide greater legal security to agents. We must not forget that the number of attacks on police officers has increased considerably.
This union describes the negotiation of the working day as “the darkest and most opaque in all of history of our Body.” They reproach that “Not a single working draft was released. and those who attended never revealed what specific changes they were agreeing on with the DGP.”
And, despite the fact that the CEP decided not to attend any meeting due to what they described as “contempt” towards the agents, they managed to obtain the first draft or document and disseminated it so that all the police officers could see the “barbarities” that they proposed. “It was a total provocation,” they say. Precisely for all this, the CEP declared the collective conflict in Aprilwhich maintains to this day, as well as the requirement that Minister Marlaska resigns.
Negotiation “doomed to failure”
Since that fateful day in February, eleven meetings have been held without any progress. The reason? Mainly, economical. “There was not a single euro on the table to improve even one of the historical demands (extraordinary services, turn-taking, attendance at trials, etc.). AND Without money, without progress for everyone and without more rights, that table was doomed to failure“, they explain from the union. Not to mention that the Interior proposal “discriminated against thousands of colleagues”by leaving them out of the necessary improvements in their day (UIP, UPR, research units, etc.).
Thus, the Spanish Police Confederation points out that the negotiation died on May 30, “no matter how much they tried to sell us that a historic event was happening there.” Now, almost six months later, the General Directorate of the Police calls them again for next November 21.
The new deputy general director of Human Resources and Training, who is predicted to have the same success as her predecessor, is trying to take up something that “she knows (or should know) that she will not be able to carry out if it is not with another method and another approach.” , they point out. In this way, they make it clear that “if it comes with more of the same”, the CEP’s response will be the same. “As long as there is no real progress in what really worries and matters to police officers at all levels,” They are not going to lend themselves to “giving oxygen” to no “fake” negotiations.