“I’d venture to say it’s the best data of the last decade. The X-ray is good, although we shouldn’t fall into complacency,” he said, after announcing that the average salary increase is above 5.5%.
The Chairman of the Council for Labor Relations, Thomas Arrieta, analyzed in the program “Boulevard” of Radio Euskadi the salary evolution in the Basque Autonomous Community during the first four months of the year. “I bring good data. Collective bargaining is knowing how to respond to the situation we are going through and showing signs of strength. This has reduced the immobilization attributed to companies,” he stressed. After announcing that the average salary increase has been more than 5.5%according to the data collected up to April, it is qualified that relevant agreements were made last month that also contain “significant increases”.
“If we only look at the collective agreements negotiated in the CAV, the value increases by 0.7 percent. Nevertheless, the only relevant thing is not the increase, but whether it affects many or few people and that depends on the number of agreements that we know how to renew. Since there are a lot of contracts being renewed lately, the data is therefore improving,” he explains.
In the interview, he also highlighted that today 40% of employees have renewed their contracts, and “if we combine April’s contracts, that figure rises to 50%.” the best data of the past decadeand show that one in two employees you have already updated Terms of employment. The x-ray is goodalthough we must not fall into complacency,” he noted.
Arrieta didn’t want to talk about it “stuck agreements”because he thinks the collective bargaining “alive” and “the blind is not closed”. “We have to move on with those people who don’t even have an agreement, because they lost it with the reform of the PP. The goal is to reintegrate them all, that’s why. we have homework to do” added.
Referring to Adegi chairman’s statements about the “culture of agreement” which he says has gained momentum in the CAV, the Labor Relations Council chairman has indicated that collective bargaining only works with agreements, “there is no alternative “.
Finally, he has shown that he is in favor of the agreements and not the strikes, although it is clear that “we must not demonize the protests”. “The strike is part of the model, as a pressure gauge, that is, it is part of the basic framework of the negotiations,” he concluded.
Source: EITB
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