Both CC.OO. and the UGT accept the proposal of the Ministry of Finance to raise the salaries of civil servants by 9.5% in three years, contemplating both fixed increases and clauses related to growth and inflation, while the CSIF union has rejected it. “We express our absolute rejection of the salary offer that the Government has transferred to us. Public employees are going to lose purchasing power again”, declared the president of CSIF, Miguel Borra, at the end of the negotiating session this afternoon. In addition, he added that it is "a definitive position."
The proposal made by the Treasury is for an increase of 3.5% this year, which includes the 2% already agreed, plus an additional 1.5%. In addition, in 2023, a 2.5% is proposed, which can reach 3% depending on a variable related to inflation and another to GDP. Finally, in 2024, it is an increase of 2%, which can go up half a point more depending on inflation. In short, a three-year increase of a fixed 8% plus a potential additional 1.5%.
It is an approach that was already accepted last week by the UGT, the first union to give its approval, and today by the CCOO. "All this is conditioned to a correct relationship in the approval, in the coming weeks, of that agreement in other very important matters that accompany the salary issue and that have to do with the recovery of certain cuts from previous governments", Humberto declared. Muñoz, of CC.OO.
For its part, from CSIF they insist that the approach is a new loss of purchasing power and that in three years not even this year's price increase would be covered. "This is unacceptable," they affirm and warn that there will be mobilizations.
