Unions threaten Social Security strike after losing 24% of workforce in 10 years

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The most representative unions of Social Security workers are at war. The centers have announced that they will begin a mobilization cycle that could result in an escalation, beginning in November. strike in all offices of the institution. his motivescorruption“Progressive, which they think is due to the repeated lack of investment in recent years, as well as the lack of generational change for a very old cadre, and the “political irregularities” of Minister José Luís Escrivá, who did not reverse the situation in question. csif, CCOO Y UGT joint statement.

We have been condemning the loss of employment, the failure of business relations, the advanced age of the personnel serving within the body, the closure of citizen aid offices, and the model change produced by hiding behind the health crisis. forced thousands of citizens to resort to telematic means due to lack of personnel…”, three unions complain in a letter sent to the minister.

According to the Statistical Bulletin of the personnel working in the Public Administrations, Social Security, lost 24% of its soldiers in last decade. In 2012, there were a total of 30,217 public employees in the general treasury and related institutions that led the majority of the cuts and austerity policies. Today, 10 years later, 22,979 employees remain, meaning almost 8,000 fewer staff and more workloads. Since last year, Social Security, minimum vital income (IMV) is a government income benefiting more than 500,000 households across Spain, in addition to, among others, traditional pensions. Another problem that worries the power plants is, generation relaxationA significant proportion of current employees are over 55 and will gradually retire over the next ten years.

Accepted “abandon”

A drifting “abandonment” from Mariano Rajoy’s PP Government and PSOE has not returned, both in the first phase of Pedro Sánchez alone and in the current coalition. Although he accepts. “There is a political will to resolve the dereliction that the organization has experienced since the beginning of the last decade, to strengthen its structure and to encourage its modernization in terms of vehicles and personnel,” said the Minister of State for Social Security. Borja Suarezin Congress last month.

It is in the process of including Social Security to mitigate this “abandonment” situation. 1,615 temporaryIn the eyes of the centers, inadequate “because they not only contribute to the improvement of the Social Security System, but also further destabilize its functioning and seriously jeopardize the future of the administration by not affecting the administrative structure of the system and the equipment and classification of its unions”, according to what they sent to the minister in their letters.

The unions also blame Escrivá for failing to create the State Agency for the Social Security Administration, as committed in the first major agreement on pensions, reached as part of the social dialogue and signed in December 2021. Accordingly, and as stated in the Official State Gazette (BOE), before July 2022 the Government should have created this body to modernize and secure the institution. “simplification, rationalization, cost savings and efficiency The “Social Security system”, as it appears in it.

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