The union that calls the strike says that “the prison system cannot stand” the “disorder and randomness of management” of services. “Disorientation, inertia and indecision, and the absence of proactivity will cause disgrace,” says the association, which calls for measures to make the profession of prison guard attractive.
A (ASCCGP) On Wednesday a pre-guidance of strike on July 17 against the disorganization of the service and a new professional status.
In a statement, the Association considers that “the organizational entropy stadium” has come and that “the prison system cannot stand” the “disorder and randomness of management” of services.
“Disorientation, inertia and indecision, and absence of proactivity, will cause disgrace,” says ASCCGP, adding that “it will not be able to impute negligence and responsibility to workers, but to the state.”
“Enough of invoking the” usual “violations of duties and lack of care, when they are unequivocally the first not to be protected the existence of resources, consciously promoting the present prison context,” says the union.
ASCCGP calls on workers in the career of the prison guard’s head to strike in two weeks, adding that “the minimum services provided” in the law will be assured.
Against lack of security and “government inertia”
The strike aims, in addition to those, to protest “against the lack of security in prison establishments”, “the obsession of DGRSP (Directorate-General for Reinsertion and Prison Services) in the realization of steps” and the “government inertia to promote attractiveness measures to the profession”.
ASCCGP also calls for the “immediate payment of the prison security supplement (evaded since January 2014) to all who perform teams of team leaders” and that the profession is classified as “quick wear”.
Since the escape of five prisoners from the Vale de Jewish High Security chain in September 2024 that security issues in prisons have been under discussion, the episode was motivated by the resignation of the then Director General of Reinsertion and Prison Services and Audits to Prisons by Order of Justice, Rita Alarcão Júce.
Prison guards have insisted that the lack of staff compromises the security of prisons.
Speaking to Lusa on Prison Guard Day, on June 27, the president of the National Union of the Prison Guard, Frederico Morais, expressed concern for the situation of insecurity and degradation in prisons, but said he had “total confidence” in the Minister of Justice to resolve them.
