Representatives from police unions and workers from municipal sports facilities, the blue zone, and cleaning services demonstrated this Thursday in San Fernando. The protests, already a common feature at City Council Plenary sessions, have moved to public streets, including a march around the weekly market in Ronda del Estero.
The demonstrators denounce "the situation of neglect and deterioration that various municipal services have been suffering for years" and express their "weariness due to the lack of solutions and responses from the governing team." They have warned that mobilizations will continue if their demands, considered "fair, legal, and necessary," remain ignored.
The situation of neglect and deterioration that various municipal services have been suffering for years and the feeling of weariness due to the lack of solutions and responses from the governing team.
The demands from the police unions are extensive and include a lack of uniforms since 2022, the absence of a second-activity regulation since 2007, pending invoices to lawyers, lack of adequate legal assistance, an obsolete job valuation system, and the absence of a risk prevention company for two years.
Furthermore, they denounce an access system to leadership positions that allegedly violates basic principles of equality and merit, police facilities lacking basic security measures, lack of job adaptation for employees with functional limitations, non-payment of expenses to municipal employees, and the absence of public explanations regarding alleged irregularities in the hiring of the psychologist for the new Local Police chief.
Union representatives state that these events have generated widespread discontent among staff and affect not only municipal workers but also the quality of service received by the citizens of San Fernando.
