Unions CCOO and UGT they will ask the employer CEOE reopen negotiations for a wage agreement and that these rise, in general, by 4.5% over the next two years. To this figure, the power plants claim to add a complement according to the benefits that the companies in each sector obtain, forcing those companies with more benefits to pay their employees more and making wage claims more flexible in those areas where business volumes are worse. This is how they will transfer it to the employers at the next meeting scheduled by the parties, in order to unravel the Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining (AENC), a kind of agreement of agreements that the leadership agrees on and then their negotiators apply sector by sector and that has expired for two years.
The centrals rearrange their proposals before the castling of the employers and renounce to link the payrolls entirely to the evolution of the inflation. In this sense, CCOO and UGT have agreed to champion a salary increase of 4.5% for this year, from 4.5% by 2024 and from 4% in 2025, as ‘La Vanguardia’ has advanced and this medium has been able to confirm. Said base percentages are higher than those registered up to now, in average terms, by collective bargaining.
Increased inequalities between sectors, with increases almost equal to inflation in certain industrial areas and substantially larger losses in purchasing power in the services sector. In average terms, the wage increase agreed by the collective agreement in 2022 closed at 2.8%, a figure three times lower than the average inflation for the year, which was 8.4%. And what resulted in the greatest loss of purchasing power since 1985.
At these increases, the centrals will require the organization chaired by Antonio Garamendi that adds a plus that combines a combined indicator of profits and inflation. This idea has been championed by CCOO for weeks, which advocates developing an objective indicator -in the style of the CPI or GDP- and from which to force companies to improve these base increases of 4.5%.
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The center run by unai deaf stated at the beginning of the year that the preparation of these indicators should correspond to the Ministry of Finance, based on the data declared by the companies in their periodic VAT declarations. The CEOE, for the moment, has not expressed itself explicitly on the subject and there is still no date for a next meeting with the plants.
How much the plants will claim to complement that 4.5% base increase based on profits and the CPI is something that they are still just defining, according to union sources. As well as the weight that one indicator or another would have in each sector, in the absence of the success of the proposal and the path that the CEOE wants to give it, which until now has been firmly opposed to clauses that automate increases.