CSIF calls on government to update public salaries in 2022 and negotiate multi-year increase
“For a fair salary increase, against social impoverishment and deterioration of public services.” Officials are taking to the streets to put pressure on the government ahead of the group’s meeting next Wednesday with the Ministry of Finance to begin negotiations on salaries in government services, as part of the next General State Budgets (PGE).
Despite the call for negotiations, the Central Independent Trade Union and Officials (CSIF) has decided to maintain the protest day, which was attended by more than 17,000 people, according to the government delegation.
The aim is to demand from the Executive a “fair” salary increase and effective economic measures, such as a retroactive update of government salaries in 2022, to restore the purchasing power lost this year from the impact of the runaway inflation.
Specifically, the group is demanding that a multi-year salary increase be negotiated to compensate for the decreased purchasing power since 2010, “and thus set an example for the private sector.” They also call for “effective economic measures that help workers fight rising prices; ensure quality public services by providing the necessary resources; and a transparent and objective debate on the future of pensions’.
During an intervention in the demonstration that visited the center of Madrid, the president of CSIF, Miguel Borra, assured that “the government is ungrateful to the workers of this country, both in the public sector and in the private sector”, and that the mass demonstration “the first evidence is that he is losing support from the street.”
After insisting that the executive “stop viewing officials as heroes during the Covid pandemic, treating them ungratefully and ignoring them,” the CSIF president stressed that the government is “making a mistake and will pay for it in the polls.” “.
Source: La Verdad
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