The Ministry of Labor formalized on Tuesday a joint agreement with the unions of the railway sector that contemplates an increase of more than 99% for the period from April 2022 to March of this yearas confirmed by sources from that labor portfolio.
In this way, the workers grouped in the organizations of the railway sector will have an annualized salary increase of 99.12% and to that amount will be added a bonus for the Day of the Railway Worker of $ 46,754to be collected together with the salary for the month of March.
The signing of the agreement took place at the labor headquarters and was headed by Minister Raquel “Kelly” Olmos and the head of the unions of the Railway Union, Sergio Sasia, and Omar Maturano, of the Fraternity, among other union leaders.
Antecedent
Last November, the four railway unions and the companies Ferrovías SAC and Metrovías SA agreed in the peer review a new salary increase of 36% in three tranches and the payment of a non-remunerative and one-time fixed sum equivalent to 15% of the total gross salary that was in force in September.
It was about a quarterly salary agreement which was in force between October 1 and January 31 of this year.
On that occasion, the parties agreed that the negotiations would be resumed in February, after the publication of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of January 2023 with the purpose of monitoring the signed agreement and defining the income guidelines.
