Workers in the justice sector affiliated to the National Union of Justice Technicians and Administrative Employees of the Attorney General’s Office (SINTEJA/PGR) and the Union of Justice Officials of Angola (SOJA) called for the next 20 14 days.
In question, the lack of response to their claims, including the non-payment of subsidies to bailiffs, the lack of security, the non-approval of the legal career regime and the lack of a remuneration statute for the category.
“On the 10th of November a strike was decreed at the level of the courts and there was no interest on the part of the employer and on the 18th of February we marched to call the attention of the employer, we were ignored, there being no interest, so we are going to paralyze all services” , said Joaquim Teixeira, general secretary of the Union of Justice Officials of Angola (SOJA), quoted by the Angolan press.
“The lack of attention given to bailiffs simply has to do with their unwillingness to solve problems that are possible to solve. The union understands that it is not possible to solve everything on the same day, but a simple dialogue would help to solve the problems”, he added.
The unions had already organized a strike last November, which was followed, in February of this year, by the aforementioned “peaceful march against the silence of the bodies representing the employers, the Superior Council of the Judiciary and the Attorney General of the Republic”. In view of the fact that the reasons that led to this first phase of the protests have not been changed, the unions understand that they have to return to the strike as a form of protest.
For several years now, strikes have been marking the Angolan judicial system, either by some or by other agents linked to the country’s justice system.