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Faced with the suggestion of the National Chamber of Commerce (CNC) not to determine a salary increase this year, the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) responded that the workers “will fight and fight” for it. The leaders even upped the ante and demanded that the companies replace the wages of the workers who were laid off in 2020 and 2021.
“Although the 2021 management deficit reaches 0.9%, bordering on 1%, that is not an instrument for declaring that this year there will be no salary increase. The workers are going to fight, we are going to fight for our salary increase,” said the executive secretary of the COB, Juan Carlos Huarachi.
These statements came after the president of the CNC, Rolando Kempff, pointed out that this year there should be no salary increase, because inflation did not even reach 1%.
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“The inflation of 2021 does not even reach 1%. As businessmen, we propose that there should be no wage increases because there is no high inflation in the country. The inflation rate does not reach 1%, it reaches 0.9% and essential products have not risen, therefore, a salary increase does not correspond, ”he explained.
In this regard, Huarachi recalled that in 2021 they did not request a salary increase, but that the businessmen generated economy.
“Businessmen have generated economy in 2021, that is why we have been working (…) businessmen, small businessmen, small entrepreneurs have been benefiting. They cannot tell us that businessmen have not generated an economy. There are the economic indicators”, he stressed.
“Furthermore, the businessmen who have been fired during the 2020 and 2021 administration, who have closed companies, have closed industries, owe workers, must replenish wages.”
