The state unions ATE and UPCN, which had demanded the urgent revision of the salary agreement whose last installment was paid in February, will negotiate this Wednesday in the labor portfolio the definitive closure of the parity and will demand compensation for the price increase prior to the start of this year’s discussion.
The meeting in the labor dependency of Avenida Callao al 100 was convened by ministerial officials from 2:00 p.m.
The national head of the State Workers Association (ATE), Hugo Godoy, stated in a document that “the objective of the dialogue will be guarantee that in a real way there is a wage increase above inflation”.
The ATE and the Union of Civilian Personnel of the Nation (UPCN) led by Andrés Rodríguez will discuss compensation for the 2021-22 joint venture in the face of the inflationary process, after the Government agreed to reopen collective bargaining.
With the February revisionstate workers had obtained a total salary guideline of 54%although when the inflation figures for last March, of 6.7%, were known, they demanded to reopen the parity to achieve “a better floor prior to the start of the conventional 2022-23 discussion,” said Godoy.
For the union leader, the inflationary impact of March “will extend into April and May”, hence “The full 54% increase from May needs to be surpassed to ensure that inflation has truly been beaten.”
Officials and trade unionists will negotiate again in mid-May the parity of the new period 2022-23, in which the ATE will ratify its claim to accelerate the mechanisms of transfers to the plant and recategorization, among other issues.
The Secretary of Management and Public Employment of the Nation, Ana Castellanitold Télam over the weekend that the unions were summoned to review the parity of the period due to the demands of the union organizations, and reaffirmed that “the commitment is that wages beat inflation, so the numbers will be reviewed based on the increases in February and March”.
After the last review in January in the context of the collective bargaining agreement, an additional 14% had been agreed in two tranches for the current parity period, which totaled a recomposition of 54%.
