Workers will not see an increase in their income for the rest of the year because inflation was lower than expected.
The rural laborers They demand a freeze salary and cuts in the increases planned for the beginning of next year, after their perceptions were revised downwards following the last meeting of the Wages Council of the sector.
In recent days, it was decided that rural workers will not receive a salary increase for the period July-December 2024, since the increase that was stipulated for the month of July was no longer effective. nominal wage that of an unskilled laborer is 29,439 pesos in the livestock sector.
In turn, a downward correction was defined for the increase expected for January 1, 2025, going from 4.2% to 3.61%, after the inflation figure was lower than expected.
Strong statement from the Estancia Workers’ Union after the Salary Council
He Estancia Peons Union (Sipes) released a statement through its social networks stating that “based on the Executive Branch’s ruling agreed with rural unions in November 2023, 10th Round of Wage Councils, the salary recovery for a year and a half was set at 0.7%.” “This led to a small variable in an unprecedented event, where real inflation was below expected inflation, causing workers to owe their employers,” the text continues.
“What was done on Friday, August 9, was to refinance that debt with employers on the grounds that they will not have an increase in this semester and the 0.57% outstanding will be discounted in the January readjustment,” the union explains.
In that sense, the Sipes He said that “in a context of decisions, everyone will know when and where the shoe pinches” and that “in these last two rounds of wage councils, rural workers have been at a loss, so the poncho does not appear nor the message either.”
Source: Ambito
