It will be through a new consultation between more than 1,700 federal judgesto be held tomorrow, as it will be decided whether the workers of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) They return to work after more than two months of national strike with pay in protest of the judicial constitutional reform, which establishes the election by direct vote of citizens of ministers, judges and magistrates starting in 2025.
“We unanimously and firmly reject the unempathetic attitude that has been expressed towards the legitimate protest of the workers and judges of the PJF” by the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF), which from the beginning was requested that all decisions related to this process will be adopted listening to both the representation of (the National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation) Jufed and the working class, who have exercised the right to defense of judicial independence and the judicial career, currently threatened,” quotes a message addressed to public opinion.
The aforementioned association expressed its “deep concern regarding the lack of necessary conditions for the jurisdictional bodies “they can resume their activities in a normal environment.”
The decision adopted yesterday by the CJF to endorse its decision to terminate the suspension of activities, he said, “was carried out without listening to us and inaccurately taking as support the report of the consultation with the owners carried out on Friday, October 11 , ignoring that in that results report it was clarified that the suspension decreed by the workers who have not had a resolution regarding the requests made was respected.”
It should be remembered that on the 11th, Jufed itself reported that by majority vote its members decided to return to work as of October 16, which to date has not happened.
“Given the seriousness of recent events, such as the delivery to the Senate of the lists with the names of each of the judges, the drawing in an undignified raffle that defines the removal of hundreds of judges and in view of the attacks to the principles that underpin our work, as well as the lack of compliance by the CJF In the agreements made at the meeting of September 20, 2024, it was requested by various holders that a new consultation be held among the more than 1,700 federal judges, which was agreed to be carried out next Friday, October 18, 2024. ‘, quotes the message.
And it specifies that the results of said consultation “will allow us to define the position that we will assume as a judicial body in the face of the determinations imposed” by the CJF, “without having listened to the requests of the judging persons, since they have not yet been carried out in full. of the dialogue tables with the owners. So this manifestation of collective will will mark the course of our defense in this critical situation for the Judicial Branch of the Federation“.
