Some 17,000 people, according to the Government Delegation in Madrid, have attended this Saturday the demonstration called by the CSIF civil servants' union, to which the Jusepol police organization has joined, to demand from the Executive a "fair" wage increase and measures effective against inflation.
The president of the Central Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants (CSIF), Miguel Borra, assured that the demonstration was "a success" because "we have managed to get the Government to sit down and negotiate" an improvement in public salaries.
Speaking to the media at the head of the march, organized between the squares of Neptuno and Colón, Borra celebrated that "finally" the Executive has summoned them to the negotiating table next Wednesday.
CSIF has organized this protest to demand a retroactive raise in the salaries of civil servants in 2022 and that the Government negotiate an improvement for 2023 and 2024, "the two years that this Government has left."
They also demand "effective" economic measures that help workers combat rising prices, that guarantee quality public services by providing the necessary resources, and a transparent and objective debate on the future of pensions.
The president of CSIF affirmed that, apart from the follow-up of the protest, which they calculate to be thousands of people who arrived from all over Spain in the center of Madrid, this "first great demonstration against this Government" has already been a "success" before it began, because the Ministry of Finance has summoned them to negotiate after a long time claiming it.
"We have managed to get the government to sit down to negotiate public salaries and that will help negotiations in the private sphere," said the leader of the confederation.
Borra added that the demonstration is not intended only to defend a review of officials that fixes "the purchasing power they have lost in the last decade," but to protest against a government "whose measures against inflation are not being effective."
“This cannot continue like this and the Government has to take note. Countries in our environment with lower inflation are retroactively raising the salary of public employees and pensioners”, added the president of CSIF.
The march has been joined by the spokesman for Cs in Congress, Edmundo Bal, who has criticized the "hypocritical" behavior of the Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, for asking employers to raise the salary of workers on their own outside, while the Government does not do the same with public officials.
