From the Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants (CSIF), the most representative union in public administrations and with a growing presence in the private sector, we have expressed our rejection of the salary increase proposal presented by the Government for 2022, 2023 and 2024
The final offer from the Treasury includes a total increase of 6 percent for the entire 2022, 2023 and 2024, plus an additional 1.5 linked to the evolution of GDP and CPI. Therefore, this three-year increase would not even reach the foreseeable increase in prices this year and in 2022 purchasing power would be lost again (5.5 points).
In the best of cases, public employees would obtain an update of 7.5 in three years and not 9.5 as the Government assures, intending to add the two points that were already raised at the beginning of the year and that have already been amortized by the evolution of prices. It must be remembered that the group of public employees has a loss of purchasing power of more than 20 percent and in the last two years alone it has lost about 10 percent.
Therefore, from CSIF we reject this precarious salary increase that implies a contempt for the work of public employees. The Government gives excuses of bad payer, betrays its word and fails again a fundamental group for the maintenance of public services that citizens receive and that played an essential role in the worst moments of the pandemic.
OTHER LABOR CONDITIONS: 35 HOURS, TELEWORKING, PROFESSIONAL CAREER
On the other hand, attending to our responsibility, we will maintain a demanding position so that the Government fulfills other pending commitments in terms of working conditions such as the 35-hour day, the effective implementation of teleworking or the development of the professional career. In addition, we will study new mobilizations.
It should be noted that the Government has failed in the substance and the forms since until today, Monday 3, it has not presented us with a document. The draft agreement includes issues that, such as the 35 hours, could already be implemented as basic regulations, which the Administration has refused; teleworking, pending since 2021 or measures that are two years late in terms of Equality (Implementation of the III Equality Plan or the protocol for sexual harassment).
CSIF, in addition to the above, proposed in the negotiation another series of priority measures that we will continue to demand:
- Repeal of Royal Decree-Law 8/2010 to recover the salary structure of the extra payments.
- Suppression of the rules of containment of spending so that the CCAA can proceed to the return to their public employees of the extra payments of previous years pending reimbursement.
- Enabling funds to correct the salary inequalities between public employees.
- Increase of the regulatory assets of pensions of passive classes, as well as the beginning of processing of early retirement for groups or professional activities whose works are of an exceptionally painful nature.
- Suppression of the replacement rate.
- Modification of the internal promotion, making it more flexible and regulating the competition of merits on an exceptional basis.
- Voluntary mobility as a priority mechanism for the provision of jobs.
- The increase in funding to the Mutual Societies for the provision of adequate health care.
