The Union of Judicial Officers (SOJ) has estimated that membership of the strike it has called for today is at 80% nationwide.
In a statement, the SOJ regrets that the Ministry of Justice “insists on pushing workers into struggle, keeping the country and the Portuguese people deprived of a true and effective justice system”.
The bailiffs have been marching since January 10 for better working conditions and also demanding compliance with the laws of the Republic, namely the State Budget Laws.
According to the SOJ, without the conditions demanded “justice cannot be achieved”.
The union says it will maintain the strike, which has been going on since January, in the afternoons, without prejudice to other forms of struggle in the coming days.
On the opening day of the judicial year in January, the bailiffs began an indefinite strike against the lack of staff and the freeze on promotions.
The strike is taking place from 1.30pm to midnight and will be repeated daily until the government responds to the union’s demands.
The Union of Judicial Employees also began a strike today, which starts at the time the magistrate’s agenda has the scheduled events and ends at 12:30 in the morning, and then, in the afternoon, it also starts at the time of the scheduled event and ends at 17:00.
