The business chambers, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and the Central de Trabajadores Argentina (CTA) met in the Salary Council and agreed on an increase in minimum salary 20% for four tranches.
This increase in minimum salary in four parts will be distributed in four months as follows: increase in salary 7% in December; 6% in January of the following year; 4% in the month of February and, finally, 3% in March 2023.
The last meeting of the Salary Council took place in August, on the 22nd, where those involved agreed on an increase in minimum wage of 21% in three tranches of 7% for the months of September, October and November. Salaries remained, from that agreement, at 51,200 pesos in September, 54,550 pesos for October and 57,900 for the current month.
The trade union spokesmen of the Autonomous CTA voted against it because these sums mean that “the minimum income rises to 69,500 pesos only in March”. Unionists such as Hugo Godoy, leader of the Autonomous CTA, leader of the CGT and businessmen began the session virtually in the Technical Commission. Subsequently, at 4:30 p.m., they began the plenary session that culminated in the new increase in the minimum, vital and mobile wages.
Also, The same was done with the minimum and maximum unemployment benefits, which were agreed again in this Salary Council, in addition, they promised to review the salary agreement again in February 2023, to modify, if necessary, the increase for March and later.
Demonstrations in ministries
The Ministry of Social Development, preceded by Victoria Tolosa Paz, and the Ministry of Labor by “Kelly” Olmos, were the scene of protests and demonstrations by left-wing organizations, including the Polo Obrero.
He left with the slogan of better food assistance for community kitchens and also tools for productive enterprises. The protests not only took place in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, but also in squares and government offices in the provinces in different parts of the country.
The leftist piquetero groups had published a letter titled: “With hunger and without work, we say enough to the adjustment”, where they had listed the aforementioned claims.
