Isaac Chi Flores, General Secretary of the Federation of Judicial Workers in Cancún, indicated that this movement will affect around 1,000 cases they receive daily, as only urgent cases will be attended to
Judicial workers in Cancún and Chetumal have joined the national strike in protest against the judicial reform promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
According to the workers themselves, around 700 people across the state of Quintana Roo joined the movement.
The strike, which includes judges and magistrates, began at 9 a.m. on Tuesday with a sit-in at the federal courts located on Nichupté Avenue in Cancún, where the protesters made various statements against the reform.
Cancún joined 24 hours after court employees symbolically closed the judicial headquarters in at least 16 states on Monday to protest against the initiative sent by the Mexican president to the Congress of the Union last February.
They warn that the reform would undermine their rights and working conditions, and the judicial career would be affected.
Isaac Chi Flores, General Secretary of the Federation of Judicial Workers in Cancún, indicated that this movement will affect around 1,000 cases they receive daily, as only urgent cases will be attended to.
He added that the union members are waiting for the Constitutional Points Commission to study the proposal they sent as workers to guarantee salaries and benefits for the base, in addition to respecting the judicial career.
“We are joining the national movement because we disagree with this reform, not entirely, we agree that there should be a reform, but not as the president proposes it by popular vote and without considering the judicial career,” he said.
For his part, José Manuel Novelo López, Circuit Appeal Court magistrate, stated that the reform initiative is “improvised” and without a basis to end the judicial career, as campaigns will now have to be conducted to reach positions.
“We are not opposed to a reform, but it has to come from a diagnosis, not from improvisation, not from discrediting people,” he expressed.
Source: El Economista
