Pepe Álvarez, the general secretary of the UGT, reached out to the CEOE and said, demanded “day and hour” for salary deal negotiation table to reopen, blocked since the beginning of May. The union leader has offered to delay some of the salary increases that could be agreed in 2024 to ease the deal, but is conditioned to maintain partial salary review clauses to avoid a large gap between agreed salaries and the eventual increase. CPI at the end of the year. He also asked the Government for a minimum salary of 1,100 euros until 2023.
Employers and unions have overtaken accusations in recent weeks of responsibility for the breakdown of talks – with second vice president Yolanda Díaz’s intervention in favor of their headquarters. Álvarez reiterated his offer to employers, but warned in parallel that the calendar continues to be coordinated with the CCOO for worker protests in the fall.
“There is time, but not much time. They will not sign” Collective agreements In a meeting with journalists this Wednesday, the UGT leader warned, “There is no agreement to let them flow.” .
salary contract or AENC It is a kind of ‘agreement agreement’ that employers and union bosses agree on every three years. The last one expired in 2020 and has not been renewed. Negotiations of the new AENC were interrupted by a conflict between power plants’ requests to include salary review clauses, the IPC’s demands to add extra increases if they deviated too much from what was agreed, and the CEOE’s refusal to do so.
“This deal has to take inflation into account,” Álvarez insisted. The formula he proposes to resolve the situation is: Paying 2024 salary increases in subsequent years. “We maintain our willingness to continue negotiations from the CEO, as we have amply demonstrated in recent years. The CEOE has never left the table,” the employer said in a statement last week.
Regarding salaries, the secretary general of the UGT referred to the table to be opened in November regarding the inter-professional minimum wage (SMI). actually in 1,000 euros gross per month (on 14 payments), demanded to raise this €1,100an increase in line with the current 10% inflation is applied.
Recovery fund for mortgage families
The leader of the UGT claimed that they would demand the following from the government from the union. creation of a recovery fund for mortgaged families. Holders of floating rate mortgages are beginning to experience an increase in costs when it comes to paying off their homes, as a result of its predictable growth in the short to medium term given the rise in Euribor and the rise in centralized rates. banks. “We saved banks in the previous crisis, now we have to save families,” he said.
Álvarez rated the first months of the document’s validity positively. labor reform and its effect on increasing the stability of contracts. Last August, four out of 10 new contracts were indefinite, while one in 10 failed to reach the same month last year. However, it also demanded a doubling of the Labor Inspectorate’s resources to ensure full compliance with regulations. “We can make some big laws, but all this will get us nowhere if we don’t have an adequate labor inspection,” he said.
Source: Informacion
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