Government asks social agents for an income agreement by 2025

In the face of the “significant challenges” facing the Spanish economy and the “complicated months” in a high inflation environment, “this is very important. business margins are not expanding and that fees grow in moderation,” Vice President Calviño formulated, without wanting to go into further detail about what kind of elements should be part of this revenue agreement.

Didn’t consider whether he was vice president salary review article demanded by unions Guaranteeing the purchasing power of wages in the context of high inflation should or should not be part of this agreement. Nor did he specify any new measures the government would like to put on the table to soften an impossible deal in the spring. Yes, Calviño said there was a commitment from the Government. place interprofessional minimum wage with 60% of the average salary at the end of the legislature, next year. But that commitment was already there from the beginning of the legislature; As CCOO Trade Union Action and Employment Secretary Mari Cruz Vicente and UGT’s Deputy Secretary General for Union Policy Mariano Hoya underline, putting it on the table as a negotiation element is nothing new. .

Calviño explained “secret” negotiation will begin immediately. In this context, he noted that Teresa Ribera, the third vice president, will call the social agents next week to discuss the contingency plan that the Government should prepare in response to this. potential power supply issues in the coming fall and winter.

Business and union sources also revealed that the Government has asked them to meet again in September to resume negotiations on the three-year Government Collective Bargaining Agreement (AENC), which was interrupted last May due to a disagreement between both parties. , or not, the salary guarantee clause.

Mari Cruz Vicente said, “In our country, an income agreement does not pass exclusively through the limitation of wages.” “We are ready to restart negotiations in the bilateral area, but at the end of each year wages should guarantee purchasing power“If it’s a collective commitment that we’re all striving for, of course we’ll be in that deal,” added Mariano Hoya.

At the end of the meeting, both union representatives admitted that “the chances of getting a lease agreement are the same as a month or a few weeks ago”.

Representatives of CEOE and Cepyme declined to make a public assessment after the meeting, but sources from both employers later expressed some doubts about the content of the meeting. open to lean back to restart bilateral negotiations with trade union representatives.

The meeting included at least nine ministers on behalf of the Government, as well as the highest representatives of the CEOE and Cepyme employers’ associations, Antonio Garamendi and Gerardo Cuerva, and Pepe Álvarez, the UGT general secretary. On behalf of the CCOO, Mari Cruz Vicente, secretary of Union Action and Employment, attended because general secretary Unai Sordo was unable to attend. Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz also did not make an official visit to Rome.

On behalf of the government, the first vice presidents are Nadia Calviño, who chairs the meeting, and the third, Teresa Ribera, as well as the heads of Finance, Transport, Education, Regional Policy and Science and Innovation, and Social Security and Universities.

The meeting had been scheduled for weeks to follow the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, but this Monday, Vice President Nadia Calviño surprised everyone called with an announcement that the meeting would be used to: try to revive an income deal negotiation Among employers, unions and government, the Vice President added the item to the meeting’s agenda, surprising social actors after he warned that the coming quarters would be “complicated” in the face of a “more persistent and higher-than-expected inflation scenario.” Preliminary CPI data in June points to 10.2%, the highest rate in 37 years.