Both ELA and LAB denounce that the salary increase for civil servants of the Spanish state is “imposed” and increases the “loss of purchasing power”.
The government of Spain will approve this Tuesday Salary increase of 2% for civil servants scheduled for this year 2024. The increase will be applied retroactively from January 1, and the Spanish executive will have the opportunity to apply the additional 0.5% increase when the necessary conditions are met is completed. The measure was agreed with the CCOO and UGT syndicates in 2022.
For their part, both ELA and LAB have again indicated that they do not agree with the decision. ELA has warned that the proposal to increase public sector salaries by 2% “represents a loss of purchasing power for the third consecutive year”. The national national center has warned that “if the Basque Country’s institutions and political parties adopt this proposal, the loss of purchasing power will exceed 6% in just three years.”
The proposal, ELA said, “is nothing more than the practical application of the 2022 agreement signed between CCOO and UGT with the state government” and has indicated that these two unions “constitute a minority in the public sector of Hego Euskal Herria. “
In the same line, LABORATORY has denounced that the three-year salary increase approved in 2022 by the Madrid government with CCOO and UGT is totally insufficient and conditional. “The increase is an imposition because the agreement reached in Madrid denies the staff of Hego Euskal Herria’s governments the right to collective bargaining.”
Source: EITB
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