The Executive Secretariat of the PIT-CNT issued a statement referring to the situation of the rise in inflation in Uruguay, to the salary losses that have been accumulating, to the problems that this generates for vast popular sectors that cannot “stop the pot”, and to the Announcements by the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, referring to granting an additional increase of 3% to liabilities and 2% to public sector workers and suggesting the advancement of the adjustment for inflation in those 88 private sector collective bargaining tables where there was no agreement.
For the trade union center, the proposal of the Executive Power is “absolutely insufficient for the most vulnerable sectors of society, it does not address, in addition, the situation of thousands of unemployed people and / or dependent on the informal economy who are living a distressing reality ” .
The PIT-CNT considers that the government’s proposal “disregards the collective bargaining mechanisms provided for in the Law. It is a unilateral proposal by the government.”
“This tells us about the differences that we have with the government around the quality of democracy. The trade union movement unrestrictedly defends collective bargaining”, the PIT-CNT remarked in its statement.
minimum salary
The trade union center stated that the proposal of the president and his economic team says nothing about the national minimum wage, which plays an important role in the evolution of the country’s wages as a whole.
“The government does not establish anything about the ongoing constant increase in prices. The profits of the powerful sectors are maintained, which transfer the international prices of raw materials to the prices of the internal market, holding hostage the people who cannot make ends meet with their meager income. Unless after possible conversations with the Executive Power, things are clarified, the proposal does not cover the loss of wages and pensions that has been observed for a long time, “said the PIT-CNT.
At the same time, the workers’ union regrets that the Executive’s proposal does not propose anything for the sectors of micro-entrepreneurs linked to industry, small agricultural production and neighborhood commerce that “also suffer firsthand the costs of the rise inflationary”.
meetings
Given this situation, the Executive Secretariat decided to request a meeting with the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres, and then with the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou.
It also agreed to convene an active union leadership of the subsidiaries, to address the issue of work, salary and famine, scheduled for Monday, April 25 at the SUTEL complex.
