The CCOO union is open to the criteria of CEOE employers. salary hike collective agreements on the real evolution of the economy and sectors, but it proposes to do it all over again. objective indexes According to the opinion of the center headed by Unai Sordo, Treasure According to the data declared by the companies regular VAT refunds.
The proposal, formulated by the CCOO secretary general in a meeting with the media this Thursday, represents a challenge for the CEOE employers association, which insists on avoiding generalized criteria for salary increases and advocates for their adaptation to the real progress of companies. In addition, the union invites the Ministries of Finance and Labor to prepare these sectoral indexes based on the data declared to the Tax Office.
Specifically, the offer Sordo put on the table to move forward collective bargaining agreement Acting as a framework for agreements in industries (ANC), it is through setting a base salary increase (it can be between 3% and 3.5% for this year and beyond) this will be accompanied by a mixed wage review clause that takes into account both inflation and the evolution of profits in the productive sectors. “This allows the proposals to be tailored to the actual progress of companies, but we want to do this based on objective data,” Sordo explained.
To give an example, an increase of 3.5 percent can be determined for 2023 and the increase can be updated according to inflation at the end of the year, only if the benefits of the sector improve to a certain extent. “Do you accept the challenge of a collective bargaining based on objective data?” Sordo rhetorically asked the bosses.
According to preliminary data CCOO managed from the Tax Office’s statistics on company sales, they conclude: companies’ margin increased to 10.4% of sales, According to the union analysis, this represents a “historically high level”, an increase of 30% from the pre-pandemic level. From the CCOO perspective, comparing these data to the average salary increase in 2022 (2.78%) concludes that “there is no fair distribution of the inflation effect between both parties.”
What CCOO proposes is that the Government business results indexes for codes of each collective agreement and that they serve as a guide in the negotiation of each sector. More than 1,000 collective agreements are expected to be renewed for 2023.
Unai Sordo, general secretary of the CCOO, also touched on the difficulties of moving forward on an agreement. reform pensions This includes the extension of the calculation period planned by the Government. Regarding the remaining measures in the table (bidding gaps, maximum contribution base…), an agreement seems easier from CCOO’s point of view, but not about extending the calculation time.
There is no agreement on negotiation. Scholarship Statutes. The negotiating parties received a new proposal from the Government, which, as Sordo has revealed, is stepping back on its commitment to limit extra-curricular internships at companies to three years. Regarding the so-called “Scholarship Statutes”, Sordo said, “If they are going to have to break the union agreement to reach parliamentary agreement, they will have to do it without the support of social dialogue.”