The unions agreed on two 11% quotas for the coming months. Furthermore, the bonus of 60 thousand pesos will not be absorbed by the joint venture.
The state unions ATE and UPCN agreed this Tuesday with the Ministry of Labor on a 23.2% salary increase in two installmentscumulative 11% each for September and October, based on August earnings. Furthermore, they agreed that the bonus of 60 thousand pesos in two sections not be absorbed for the parity.
The State Workers Association (ATE) and the Union of Civil Personnel of the Nation (UPCN)who lead Hugo Godoy and Andres Rodriguezreported in separate press releases that the State’s joint venture will be revised in october next.
The UPCN indicated that the bonus of 60 thousand pesos granted by the Governmentwhich will be paid in two installments of 30 thousand pesos, “it will not be absorbed by the joint venture”, and assured that the accumulated total salary increase between June and October will be 63.89%. In addition, the union detailed that the 23.2% cumulative in two sections It will be applied to the award for presenteeism, daycare, travel expenses and other salary concepts.
The joint venture had been brought forward for review to August last, which allowed the first installment of the salary guideline to impact this month’s income. Godoy, who was accompanied at Work by the leaders Rodolfo Aguiar, Mercedes Cabezas, Flavio Vergara, Luciano Fernández and the lawyer Mariana Amartino, ratified at Work the need for “wages beat the inflationary process and preserve them from the effects of devaluation to recover purchasing power”.
Godoy valued “the set of recent measures adopted by the Government to improve the quality of life of workers” and maintained that the review will be at the end of October so that it will already impact salaries for next November. At the meeting “the importance of continuing the path of hierarchization of state workers was highlighted,” while the leader assured that strengthening the State to liberate the Nation requires decent wages and job stability.
The union stated at the meeting that “no worker should be below the poverty level”, and that a fixed sum must be incorporated as an integral and permanent part of the salary; He added that those who regularize their employment are already state employees and not employees and emphasized the need to eliminate the 12-month trial period requirement. “This will allow the acquisition of full stability for the benefit of those who become permanent employees with 5 or more years of work experience in public administration,” he said.
Godoy also raised the need to modify the regime of licenses, justifications and franchises that has been in force since the civil-military dictatorship, and considered that the agreement obtained today for only two months will allow achieving “an increase above inflation in the last five months “, and requested that “the joint venture be kept open permanently.”
Aguiar, national deputy of the ATE and elected head of the union since next November, maintained that ““The agreement reached today will allow us to monitor the evolution of prices and the impact it will have on public sector income.”, while Cabezas – elected deputy of the union – valued that “the increases are taken on the basis of the previous month.” “This is related to the reality of the workers. In addition, the ATE requested that the bonus of 60 thousand pesos in two tranches of 30 thousand each remain as a permanent and fixed sum, since some specific sectors border on the indigence line” . She added that civilian personnel of the Armed Forces “it must have a higher recomposition and the income floor must be raised”Cabezas said.
Source: Ambito
