The businessmen’s leader warns that if “unilateral decisions” are taken, the possibility of reaching an agreement will be removed
There is no rental agreement. At least this legislature. This was announced by this newspaper last week and confirmed on Wednesday by CEOE President Antonio Garamendi, who accuses the government of “making unilateral decisions” for the failure to reach this agreement.
“In the end, if a lot of things that should have been on the table have been unilaterally decided, you leave out the possibility of an income agreement,” Garamendi denounced from Angola, where he is taking part in the business mission that has accompanied the King and Queen of Spain during their visit to the African country after canceling their trip to Morocco last week with the president, Pedro Sánchez.
The possibility of reaching that income deal that Sánchez announced almost a year ago was blown up with the 8% increase in the minimum wage agreed with the unions, despite the employers’ rejection. In addition, there are other decisions without consensus, such as the series of measures to alleviate the price crisis, the revaluation of pensions or the salary increase of civil servants.
In addition, the leader of the businessmen warned that in order to make an income agreement it is necessary to have “someone other than the social agents”, since “it makes sense” that that agreement lasts four or five years and not “eight, nine or ten months, and for this very reason he stuck to his idea that “at least” the main opposition party or parties “called to rule the country” should also have been at the negotiating table.
These words from Garamendi come a day after the government’s first vice president, Nadia Calviño, again defended in the Senate that reaching an income deal would be “beneficial” and “very positive” for the workers, as it would enable them have a multi-year perspective.
“Nobody more than I wants there to be an income agreement. From the government, we have done everything we can to make this possible, providing assistance to families through social protection measures, such as the increase of the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) or the revaluation of pensions,” Calviño stressed.
Source: La Verdad
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