Employers are refusing wage revision points according to the inflation demanded by the unions

Employers’ “No” CCOO and UGT’s main requirement for a possible wage agreement at the state level: Purchasing Power Assurance clauses. Most unions offer this measure as the most appropriate in the context of rising inflation, such as the current one, at almost 10% and a record since the 1980s. In the short run the increase will adjust prices and workers will not lose purchasing power. CEOE’s employers rejected this option this Friday, according to collective bargaining sources.

Employers gathered this Friday to discuss the internal wage debate. Discussions have led to the rejection of the trade union approach, which calls for the State Collective Bargaining Agreement (AENC) to introduce an increase in reporting wages over the next three years, but this annual increase to be adjusted to price evolution. just a little.

The intention of the unions is to prevent wage revisions at the end of the three-year period of inflation, which they consider to be long, and in which much can change along the way, with months of intense impoverishment. From workers.

A proposal to increase wages by 8% over three years

An employer proposal provides for a wage increase over the next three years without the provision of a guarantee governing remuneration and price evolution. According to the expansion, this will be an 8% salary increase over the next three years.

In 2022, they forecast growth of 3.5% in a year with very high inflation, which Eyref and the Bank of Spain predicted this week could move to an average of 6.2% (excluding gas price containment measures). That the government is working and conducting negotiations with Brussels). Businessmen are proposing a 2.5% increase by 2023 and a 2% increase by 2024, in line with the price moderation expected in the coming years, according to the Economic Newspaper.

The amount offered by the businessmen for this exercise is very far from the current inflation and some end-of-year estimates. For example, the Bank of Spain forecasts average inflation of 7.5% for this year, which will be reduced to 2% in 2023 and 1.6% in 2024, in its forecasts published this week. As mentioned, the bank regulator did not accept. In the forecast, consider the impact of the gas price limit on which the government is working with Portugal and which is expected to significantly limit inflation. How much it contained in the prices is to be clarified when the gas cap is finished and it will get the green light from Brussels.

In the employer’s proposal, these figures are also due to the fact that they are compatible with the maintenance and creation of employment and also require the inclusion of this growth in public tenders, reports the agency Europa Press.