CC OO will meet next Thursday to demand that negotiations be opened on a new agreement that will include a salary increase and other rights such as the 35-hour work week.
New mobilization to demand wage increase. In this case for the more than 3.3 million civil servants, who will lose purchasing power this year with a revaluation of 2% compared to an inflation of 10.2% in June.
CC OO announced Monday that it will resume the offensive, taking advantage of the debate on the state of the nation taking place these days to focus next Thursday before Congress to ask the government to open the negotiating table on a new agreement in the National Service. “We want to draw the attention of both the government and the political groups to a problem that affects more than 3.3 million workers,” Humberto Beltrán, CC OO’s public space coordinator, told a news conference.
CC OO has been urging the government for more than a year with force and mobilization to open the dedicated collective bargaining forum to civil servants, and in the month of May obtain the Undersecretary of State’s commitment to public functions to the general table. Not only did this appeal fail, however, but shortly after the branch minister, María Jesús Montero, postponed these salary negotiations until after the summer, when the time to approve the new 2023 budgets is approaching, prompting the union. has incited anger.
“Faced with troubling economic prospects due to rising inflation, we are demanding a new pay and benefits agreement, guaranteeing purchasing power, recovering rights cut during previous crises and making progress in substantially improving regulations and working conditions. I work for this group,” says Muñoz, who is asking for a salary increase to match the price increases as officials have suffered from a loss of purchasing power for years.
In this case, however, CCOO will not require a salary review clause to be included to protect civil servant salaries from inflation, so that if it increases more than salaries, it will be updated at the end of the month. “We are not going to do things in the same way as in other sectors, because the counterpart is society, we all are,” admitted Muñoz, who made it clear that the goal remains that the purchasing power of this group “does not deteriorate or anything to deteriorate as little as possible”, and that in such a case “will be compensated by the recovery of other allowances and other austerity measures pending”.
Source: La Verdad
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