The union center questioned that the guidelines only focus on recovery and do not include salary growth.
He PIT-CNT was not entirely satisfied after the presentation of the guidelines for the 10th Round of the Wages Council in Uruguay by the government last week, and pointed out that they left “little taste”. On Thursday there will be a meeting of the Expanded National Representative Table union to address this issue.
After several complaints about the delays with which the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) presented the salary guidelines that will govern during the negotiations in the framework of the 10th Round of the Council of Salaries, the labor union assured that it expected more from the portfolio directed by Pablo Mieres.
The position of the PIT-CNT on the guidelines
According to the member of the executive Secretary, Fernando Ferreira, although the guidelines for collective bargaining include annual and not biannual corrections as part of the commitment announced by the government to achieve the recovery of workers’ real wages —lost, mostly, during the Covid-19 pandemic—; these they are limited to the necessary recovery but do not target wage growth in a context of expanding economy. This, for the trade unionist, “is not positive.”
“There is no growth, (the salary) remains stagnant and that is a problem that is seen when one compares the incidence of the wage bill in GDP. There is a drop of practically 2% in that relationshipwhich means that there is no transfer of the country’s wealth to the workers,” said Ferreira.
Within this framework, the trade unionist added the concern of the PIT-CNT for the situation of some 50,000 workers with “submerged wages” —Those who receive income of up to 25,000 pesos, according to the central. And he also pointed out as a reason for alert the possibility that certain sectors of activity to which corrective measures were advanced last year at the request of the government to alleviate inflation, have “negative adjustments” in this round.
The government guidelines provide for workers to materialize the salary recovery no later than 2025 in the context of two-year agreements with four adjustments —one per semester— in br to projected inflation and a recovery component. In addition, it was defined that those sectors with a salary loss of less than 2% will recover that amount in three semi-annual installments from July, while the groups that exceed 2% would reach the goal in the same modality but from January of the year that comes.
With these letters on the table, the PIT-CNT summoned its Extended National Representative Table for next Thursday to Define your negotiating position. That day the Tripartite Higher Council where employers and workers will make their returns to the government on the guidelines presented by Mieres last Thursday.
Source: Ambito
