Sordo reveals informal contacts for a new collective bargaining agreement and will propose to create an index that reflects the real economic performance of companies and sectors
CC OO takes a step forward to unblock a new salary deal for the next few years after the breakdown of negotiations in 2022. The union led by Unai Sordo launches an injunction to the CEOE and is now open to part of tie the wage increase to the “real economic progress of companies and sectors”. The Secretary-General announced this during an informational meeting with the media on Thursday, also revealing that negotiations on a new Labor Agreement and Collective Bargaining (AENC) have been unblocked and the first informal contacts between unions and bosses, after months of paralysis.
“I think there will be a chance to reach an agreement. At least there will be negotiations,” Sordo said with satisfaction, as he is convinced of the need to implement a wage increase so that the country does not climb the abyss of recession approaching, as he warned that consumption is already slowing. due to households drawing on the savings generated during the pandemic and in 2023 the increase in the Euribor will further drown two million households, whose income will be reduced by 10% only due to the effect of their mortgage.
CC OO is therefore relaxing its position in view of the next negotiations and will table a proposal that instead of requiring the inclusion of 100% fixed-income wage clauses, one part will be linked to price increases and the other to corporate profits . This is precisely where the stumbling block in the negotiations was: the CEOE’s refusal to introduce clauses linked to the CPI, as demanded by the unions, and his defense that wages should be linked to the evolution of companies.
To do this, it plans to create an index that would feed on a series of data collected by the tax authorities, such as sales, VAT paid, VAT charged… «It’s relatively easy with the ‘big data’, since the data is we have,” defended Sordo, who, however, asked for the government to be involved in its preparation.
“Do you dare to make a revaluation clause that is not only about prices but also about the evolution of the sector if an index is made that shows how things are going?” asked the Basque leader, who emphasized that the company current benefits are “very big” and placed them at 10.4% through the third quarter of the year, so they would even be above inflation.
In addition to this new draft of the safeguard clauses, CC OO will defend “significant initial increases” in wages at the table; in particular, they will ask for an increase not lower than 4% for 2022, 3.5% for 2023 and 2.5% for 2024.
What Sordo completely rules out is an income agreement and he blamed the government for this failure. “We want to censor the government because, having put the concept on the table, it has not been able to promote it,” he denounced, accusing the executive of imposing unilateral measures that could have been negotiated and used for the income agreement.
Source: La Verdad
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