Gómez explained that they are fighting mainly for promotions for justice, which is to take each firefighter to the rank that corresponds to him according to his time in service.
The retired major and general secretary of the Firefighters Union of the Republic of Panama, Cruz Gómez, spoke of the protest actions that will take place at noon this Wednesday at the Ricardo Arango Barracks, due to the precarious situation in which the institution finds itself and promotions for justice.
Gómez explained that they are fighting mainly for promotions for justice, which is to take each firefighter to the rank that corresponds to him according to his time in service.
“We have firefighters who retired last year in the same promotion, some as Major and others as Corporal Segundo or Corporal Primero, those are inconsistencies within the institution. We have cooks who have 20 years of service and still earn $600 and $700, mechanics who earn a very low salary. At the national level they don’t even have mechanical sections, “he said.
He specified that a year ago an agreement was reached between the general director of the institution, members of the union and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), where a new structure was going to be delivered to the MEF so that it would pay these promotions for justice. , but have received no concrete answers.
“The directors who have arrived have not been able to structure the institution well,” Gomez said.
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