Police and civil guards protest this Saturday in Madrid for a dignified retirement and full equality with Mossos

MADRID, March 15 (EUROPA PRESS) - Police and civil guards summoned by the Platform for Dignified Retirement, which brings together a dozen unions and associations from both bodies, are holding a demonstration this Saturday in the center of Madrid to demand better labor conditions such as being recognized as a risky profession and "full equality" with Mossos d'Esquadra, Ertzaintza and local police forces.

The Police and Civil Guard organizations assure that hundreds of people from all over Spain will support them in the capital in the protest "due to the lack of interest on the part of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to convene a dialogue and negotiation table ".

They will also have the support of representatives of PP and Vox in a demonstration that will begin in the Plaza de España and end in the Plaza de las Cortes, next to the Congress of Deputies. Police organizations have chartered buses, so they expect the influx to be massive.

CONCESSIONS TO INDEPENDENTISM

On January 18, when they announced the demonstration, the organizing unions and associations complained that the Government of Pedro Sánchez "continued with the concessions" to the independence parties of Catalonia. Most of them are suspicious of the amnesty law and other measures such as the transfer in immigration matters or the allocation of 1.6 billion euros to deploy 3,000 more Mossos agents.

Sources from the unions consulted by Europa Press have stressed, however, that their main message in the demonstration this Saturday in Madrid is the demand for their labor rights in relation to a dignified retirement, inclusion as a risky profession and " full equality" with other autonomous and local bodies.

The platform emerged in January 2023 and brings together a dozen Police and Civil Guard organizations. They follow in the wake of the 2018 Salary Equalization Agreement, since one of their demands is to activate the eighth clause to approve a law that prevents future salary divergences between police forces.

RETIREMENT CALCULATIONS

On February 28, the Interior Commission of the Congress of Deputies approved a Non-Law Proposition (PNL) registered by the PP in favor of including police and civil guards as a risk profession, as demanded by both bodies, since this would result in improvements in the calculation of your early retirement.

The PSOE recalled that the Ministry of the Interior has already created a working group to study its inclusion among risk professions, as is the case with local police, the Ertzaintza and the Mossos d'Esquadra.

In the debate in Congress, it was recalled that the risk profession only affects the calculation index for early retirement, since the law already recognizes the "factor of hardship and danger in specific complements" or in the regulation of the second activity. or active reserve.

The platform that promotes the demonstration in the capital is made up of SUP and AUGC, as well as representative organizations among the Police and Civil Guard commands, such as the SPP or the Union of Officers, among others. JUPOL and JUCIL have also supported the protest, although they are not part of the platform.