Public function accepts to gather on Monday to defrost the salary of officials

The pressures of the unions take effect and on Monday, the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function meets them to start the first meetings and reach a new agreement after the previous one expired on December 31.

In the first instance, Public Function will meet with the signatories of the Macro Agreement for a 21st Century Administration, that were CCOO and UGT – CSIF did not sign it because it considered that officials were losing purchasing power. In it, UGT sources confirm electionomista.es that “they will talk about the balance and fringes of the agreement.”

It should be noted that officials They have not yet received 0.5% pending, that would mean about 700 million euros to the government without taking into account the drag of tables, and is one of the main claims made by unions to the ministry. Although CSIF will not be in this first meeting -since that agreement did not sign because they claimed that it condemned public employees to continue losing purchasing power -, from the union they claim “that the salary increase automatically occurs every year.”

In the afternoon, the public service portfolio has summoned all unions, CSIF, CCOO and UGTto initiate conversations and reach a new agreement after the previous one expired on December 31 and, from that moment, the salaries of the officials were frozen. This first meeting is a first contact to put on the table the main requests demanded by officials, in which each of the unions will present their proposals since “there is no common platform, for the moment,” confirm UGT sources. It should be noted that last Wednesday the first strike was convened, in front of the Ministry of Finance, led by CSIF and, on April 8 it is the following, this convened by CCOO.

During these last weeks, the unions have already presented the proposals that will make the government in this new negotiation, in which The “economic security and certainty to public workers” will prevail “ They confirm from UGT that they also denounced that “in a normal situation the negotiations would have already begun to talk about the new agreement.”

Thus, the Secretary of Trade Union Action of UGT Public Services, Isabel Araque, acknowledged the Success of the fixed base and variable base formula Implanted in the previous agreement and affirmed that, at the negotiating table, they will try to approve new bases through this system, although it recognizes “we still do not have the deadlines clear because they have not called us and depends on the circumstances.”

Also They will raise a progressivity in extra payments from the unionan increase in salary mass above 5% in which it was in 2010, recover the trienniums for all administrations -which is a salary complement for seniority that an organization gives to its workers.

To increase jobs, UGT advocates a streamlining in processes to generate more employment. “Currently since a necessity is created until a position is in charge of about three yearswe want to reduce that time to 18 months “, which would reduce the temporality rate (which is currently above 28%). At this point, UGT rules out that the committed objective of cutting the 8%temporality rate will be met.

Finally, Eliminating the replacement rate is another fundamental element that will move to the negotiating table. Although José Luis Escrivá, the former Minister of Public Function, already put on the table to suppress the replacement rate, has never been carried out. “It cannot be that the replacement rate is the one that marks what type of employment is needed and how many employees are necessary in public administrations,” said Araque.

These will be some of the proposals that the union will try to present this Monday, although they confirm “they are our initial proposals, but it is only the beginning.”