“Today, September 30 at 11 a.m., in response to the request from Upcn, the negotiating table met at the Ministry of Labor and it was agreed: advance the 10% quota scheduled for March 2023 to November and grant in December a one-time fixed fee of 30,000 pesos, non-remunerated or subsidized,” reported the UPCN union organization, led by Andrés Rodríguez.
In this sense, he specified that it was also decided to “establish a new revision clause in January 2023”, as well as “adapt all travel and mobility items to the new situation” and “modify the award scales for attendance based on the new agreement”.
For its part, ATE also accepted the Government’s offer but “they left their disagreement with the agreement as it was insufficient”.
“The government’s proposal only partially contemplated our demands. There is an advance payment of sections and an anti-inflationary reinforcement, but there are no guarantees that salaries in the public sector will not lose with inflation,” said the national deputy secretary of ATE, Rodolfo Aguiar .
The Secretary of Management and Public Employment of the Nation, Ana Castellani, said in statements to Télam that “the new joint agreement foresees that the planned increase of 10 percent for January will go to November and that of March will go to January, which is did was advance the increases already contemplated”.
Along these lines, he said that “a fixed non-remunerative and non-refundable one-time sum of 30,000 pesos was agreed upon, which will be collected in December” and affirmed that the agreement document also included a “review in January” so that the workers’ wages can beat this year’s price increase.
“This was accepted and signed by the two unions, both UPCN and the national ATE,” said the official, clarifying that the latter “does not consider it sufficient.”
Castellani highlighted the “line of work that we have been developing side by side with the unions since day one of the administration”, working “jointly to reach agreements that allow raising the quality of public employment”.
“We are facing the resolution of a few historical problems that exist and that need to be resolved,” he said, mentioning “regularization, the career of permanent plant personnel and recognition through vertical mobility as issues of realignment of grades or review of sectors”.
The Secretariat of Management and Public Employment, for its part, published the terms of the agreement on its Twitter social network account and stated: “We signed a joint agreement that advances the 10% quotas scheduled for January and March 2023 and proposes a $30,000 bonus for December 2022. #PrimeroLaGente”.
Meanwhile, the secretary of Administrative Career and Collective Agreement of UPCN, Diego Gutiérrez, told this agency that “the agreement is still in the order of 60% but with this restructuring of the quotas, the January one continues in January and the next review process will be done in that month”.
“A bonus of 30,000 pesos has also been achieved for all workers contained in the general collective agreement of the public administration, according to decree 214/2006 and based on this restructuring of the agreement, this is also transferred to travel expenses, fixed mobility expenses and also presenteeism”, highlighted Gutiérrez and said that “all the items are going to be updated with this restructuring”.
For its part, ATE, which also accepted the Government’s offer, stated in the statement that the insufficiency it expressed regarding the agreement is based on the fact that “close to 60% of the state (national, provincial and municipal) throughout the country receive income less than the $119,757 needed to avoid being poor according to the Indec basic basket”.
On the other hand, in the statement from the union led by Hugo “Cachorro” Godoy, he indicated that it was recorded in the minutes that the financing is released for a process of transferring 11,172 vacancies to a permanent plant, which they referred to as “one of the the main debts to which the national government had committed itself at the beginning of the year”.
Today’s joint negotiation was accompanied by a strike and mobilization called by the Buenos Aires subsidiary of ATE, led by Daniel Catalano, towards the labor portfolio.
Source: Ambito
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