The Allied Association of Police Professionals will hold a debate this Friday on the right to strike in the PSP, given that “there is no reason for this impediment” 34 years after the episode that became known as “dry and wet”.
In commemoration of the 34th anniversary of the police charge against PSP elements, which is celebrated this Friday, known as “dry and wet”, the Allied Association of Professional Police Officers (ASPP / PSP) is discussing the right to strike in the Security Police Society, initiating a public discussion that the union intends to carry out during this year.
“After 49 years on April 25 and 34 years of ‘dry and wet’ in the name of democracy, there is no reason for this obstacle,” ASPP President Paulo Santos told Lusa, believing that the right to strike in the PSP is “something inevitable in a democratic and free society.” “.
Paulo Santos stressed that it is “important to discuss the right to strike because of the maturity” of the ASPP as a union, and the “constant neglect and devaluation by governments in terms of collective bargaining and problem solving” by the union. Government.
The ASPP president stated that there should be a right to strike in the PSP, emphasizing that “a union that only has the right to collective bargaining is a lame union.”
The trade unionist said that the ASPP wants to bring this issue to public discussion during this year, inviting several parliamentary groups to today’s debate to start discussions on what they consider to be “the most important thing in the SRP”.
“With the constant devaluation by several governments and the reduction of trade union freedom to a mere formality, discussing the right to strike is imperative. PSP.
On April 21, 1989, the police demonstrated the demand, above all, for freedom of trade unions, a weekly rest day, transparency of disciplinary justice with the right to a defense, higher wages and benefits.
Paulo Santos believed that “some important steps have been taken in terms of trade union freedom”, but after 34 years “there are only formal compliments” and there is “constant non-compliance” with the PSP statute, loss of the right to health and lack of attractiveness of the profession due to low wages.
The right to strike is prohibited by the PSP, which in the late 1990s. gained the right to form associations, and in 2002, the right to form unions.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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