Japan’s penitentiary police will strike on Tuesday and refuse to go to work for 2-4 hours on Wednesday, after which they will lock down prisons due to “overzealousness”, the Federation of National Penitentiary Administration Trade Unions (FSANP) announced on Monday.

“The police of the penitentiary system will on Tuesday carry out their professional activities with a white armband to draw the attention of the political class to the disaster in which the penitentiaries are in because of the bad management of the PNL-PSD-UDMR. The Japanese strike on Tuesday is accompanied by a literal lockdown of prisons. On Wednesday, 31/05/2023, penitentiary police employees will refuse to go to work for 2-4 hours because they are fed up with the abuse of Marcel Čolaka and Nicolae Chuke. The protection of military pensions, which was ardently promoted in the public space by two politicians, turned out to be a big lie and a large-scale fraud, just like the PSD-PNL government,” the FSANP press release quoted Agerpes as saying.

The Federation of Trade Unions of the National Penitentiary Administration reports that from Wednesday penitentiary police officers will begin blocking prisons due to “overzealousness”. Craiova will be the first penitentiary to be blocked due to “excessive diligence”, followed by Bystrita and Bacau.

Preference was given to an excessive method, as employees of the penitentiary militia do not have the right to strike, states the FSAP. Instead, the evasive method of strike, namely “excessive diligence”, means strict adherence to laws, rules and internal procedures that block the prison police. Bureaucracy, understaffing and unstable conditions can mean that the first action in a prison, namely “staff access to the penitentiary”, takes about 4 hours, an activity that normally takes about 45 minutes.

“The PSD-PNL coalition is reforming the military pension system “at the behest” of the World Bank and the European Commission, without consulting the Romanian law enforcement agencies. Regarding the reform of military pensions, Minister of Labor Marius Budai neither officially nor unofficially asked the point of view of the relevant ministries (defense, internal affairs, justice), but arrived with a file in his hands from Brussels. Do the politicians of that time still represent the interests of Romanians? Raising the retirement age to 65 years will force penitentiary policemen to retire right in the coffin, because the life expectancy of this socio-professional category is approximately 62 years. Changing the basis of military pension calculation will give penitentiary pensions below the cost of a decent life, below the minimum basket that the governors never want to talk about. PNL and PSD, if you don’t kill us at work, you starve us as pensioners! It sounds cynical, but you have experience. As proof, you have cases of Romanians who died of hunger and cold in their homes in the winter of 2022,” the document also states.