CCOO and UGT warn of a tense fall and refuse to give up on pay raise

The CCOO and UGT met outside the headquarters of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) this Wednesday to demand a salary increase and warned employers that autumn would come with strikes and demonstrations. purchasing power from the workers.

under the slogan ‘salary or conflict’, Hundreds of people demonstrated in a demonstration attended by CCOO Secretary General Unai Sordo and UGT Secretary General Pepe Álvarez, as well as CCOO Madrid, Paloma López and UGT Madrid Secretary General Marina Prieto. .

The unions continued their mobilization campaign, which they started in early June to bring forward the negotiation tables of collective bargaining agreements, with an intensification this Wednesday, after the Employment and Collective Bargaining negotiations ended in failure.AENC) due to the “insurmountable” difference in the salary revision clause requested by the CCOO and UGT and opposed by the CEOE.

Sordo announced on the spot that this “mobilization series” will continue in the fall.keep pretending to be fees have to develop to ensure purchasing powerThe unions will also continue their strategy of “tightening the collective bargaining negotiations” because through them “wealth is distributed”.

The CCOO secretary denounced that companies were “passing on the rise in energy costs,” and told them “they just can’t keep their profits without distributing it to its employees”.

“Every time we empty the cart in the supermarket, we leave in awe and they say we paid 30% more. save the excessHe said he is deaf.

Like Sordo, Pepe Álvarez accused Spanish companies of pushing inflation into prices.Everything they couldn’t win with covid, they won in a year“.

they do it because they want keep accumulating wealth several,” said the general secretary of the UGT, and demanded that employers distribute these benefits to their employees in the form of salary increases.

Strikes to get a raise

Álvarez lamented the CEOE’s position during the negotiations. VAENCnow contradicts what is shown at the negotiating tables of collective agreements by different sectoral employers.

“The CEO should know that we are starting to win the wage war, that the collective agreements signed in our country in 2022, the majority of the workers affected by these agreements are affected by these agreements. salary review article (…) and salaries above what CEOE has offered us,” he said.

These achievements have been made for the UGT general secretary “with the struggle of the workers” He insisted that if wage increases were not achieved through collective bargaining, the unions would continue this “sector by sector, company by company” strategy.

“We must expand mobilization andcoordinating the sectors So we can go to very large conflicts in our country, starting in September, starting in the autumn, because we can and should share the wealth of our country,” stressed Álvarez.

Sordo also applied to this slogan. concentration‘Salary or conflict’, to remember that some industries, such as metals, sign wage increases and salary revision clauses in collective agreements “through strike sources”.

“We’re not going to stop improving wages, let those listening from CEOE be clear on this. we don’t like to strike, “We call on the negotiations to end for a fair and balanced salary agreement,” he said.

The unions conveyed the proposals that they could not close with the CEOE in the VAENC meeting to the negotiating tables of the collective agreements. CCOO and UGT are requesting a salary revaluation of 3.5% for this year, 2.5% for 2023 and 2% for 2024. Salary review.

SMI rise

In addition to demanding salary increases in collective agreements, the unions have expressed their intention to continue to review the Interprofessional Minimum Salary (SMI), which rose earlier in the year. 1,000 Euros per month andn 14 payments.

Álvarez reminded that the SMI should be reviewed after six months; this is something that becomes more urgent in the current inflation situation. 10.2%According to preliminary data for June.

“The lowest paid industries are the salaried industries. less collective bargaining. “The problem is where the wages are the lowest, where the women and the youth are, where it costs us the most to raise wages,” he said.

CCOO’s Sordo also defended the rise of SMI. “We guarantee that the salaries of 1000 euros follow the line of increase. achieve 60% of the average salary next year”.

Source: Informacion

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