The Treasury and the public service unions meet this Wednesday to start the salary negotiation of three million public workers
The Government is considering offering the unions a salary increase for public employees of 3.5% by 2023, and is considering other formulas to compensate them this year for the runaway inflation, according to several sources close to the negotiation.
The objective pursued by the unions and that the Treasury seems to share is to achieve a multi-year agreement that, throughout the cycle, compensates officials for the rise in inflation.
In fact, the same sources point out that the Treasury is considering a two-year agreement (2023 and 2024), but with the possibility of reviewing the salary of public employees before the end of the year to compensate them, in part, for the rebound in prices.
At the beginning of this year, public employees received a 2% salary increase and inflation continues to record double-digit rates (10.5% in August). Hence, a possible salary increase for this year is studied, as requested by the unions, who also want it to have retroactive effects.
In any case, the Civil Service unions are waiting for the Ministry headed by María Jesús Montero to detail their proposal during the General Board meeting this afternoon, scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
CC OO, UGT and CSIF also have other claims with a view to reaching an agreement with the Government, such as the implementation of the 35-hour day -to which the Executive could open the door-, the improvement of the promotion and the professional classification, of the indemnities by reason of service; the development and updating of the Basic Statute of Public Employment; regulatory changes in matters of equality, the extension of early retirement to all public employees and the repeal of the cuts that were carried out in the public sector as of 2010.
To achieve these objectives, the unions have been mobilizing for months and even threatened to go on strike (in the case of CCOO) if a salary agreement with the Government in the field of Public Service was not achieved.
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