The strike, called by the Union of Prison Guards, is to begin at 4 p.m. on Friday until 9 a.m. on Monday, 30 September.

The protest aims to challenge the current evaluation of performance, ask for the recovery of frozen work time, compliance with the law in relation to working on public holidays, filling of all existing vacancies in the professional category, demand a decent work schedule which is compatible with family life and filling vacancies in higher career categories.

This strike comes one week after another similar strike in which, according to trade union figures, 75% of guards joined. The start of that strike was marked by a demonstration in front of the ministry of justice.

At the time, the Directorate-General for Reinsertion and Prison Services (DGRSP) said that the strike did not meet the legal requirements and warned that the guards could receive unjustified absence from work notices .

The DGRSP said that the minimum of 10 working days’ notice required by general labour law in public services was not complied with.