The construction union obtained a real increase of 1.1% for this year, higher than the guidelines set by the government.
He Single Union of Construction and Annexes (Sunca) achieved a real salary increase of 1.1% for this year and closed above the inflation, in the midst of a conflict that included worker strikes and criticism from some members of the Executive.
After the government presented the guidelines for the tenth round of negotiation of the Wages Council 2023Sunca thus managed to mark the territory with an increase for this year and real increases for the following two years, estimated at about 0.6% each.
He Secretary General of Sunca, Daniel Diverio, pointed out to LR21 that the first adjustment retroactive will be the one corresponding to last April, from 10% The figure includes the expected inflation (5.9%), the aforementioned real growth (1.1%) and a corrective of the previous agreement (2.2%), in addition to other current benefits. Meanwhile, it transpired that in April 2024 and the same month of 2025 the same formula will be used, with real increases of 0.6% and 0.66%, Diverio estimated.
The agreement also presents the creation of a social background for mental health and addiction treatment, while Sunca workers will have the benefit of three days a year to perform medical check-ups without losing presentism.
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Photo: Courtesy Sunca Official
Does the agreement mark the path of recovery of real wages?
The Sunca agreement, approved in a large General Assembly in Plaza 1º de Mayo, was one of the first to close within the tenth round of the Wage Councils, it was outside the guidelines that the government suggested weeks ago.
At that time, the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres, had specified that “within a period of four semesters”, the government seeks to generate “increases for projected and corrective inflation due to annual inflation”, with which some workers were going to recover their salaries only in July 2024 and January 2025.
Source: Ambito
