The general secretary of the Federation of Truckers, Hugo Moyano, announced Monday that he has requested that the business rooms go ahead with salary negotiation, which was originally scheduled for June, due to accelerating inflation. “We have asked the cameras to promote equality,” said Moyano, who added a political argument to justify one of the statements he put on the list: “we demand that the percentage be applied to us they met in the Senate and Chamber of Deputiesmga 20,000 pesos on basic salary.

Last week, Cristina Kirchner and Sergio Massa were photographed with trade union representatives in Congress and announced a 20,000 peso increase in the basic salary, which triggered successive staggering ascents at various salary scales of legal employees.

Now, Moyano wants employers to give carriers to his union workers both granted by the Vice President of the State and by the President of the House of Deputies to the workers of the Senate and Deputies.

Moyano made the request to the employers chamber through a note in which he mentioned the increase of 20,000 pesos received by the legislature staff.

From one in three business rooms to transportation, they said Clarion that it was “impossible” to meet Moyano’s request. “This would be a 33% increase in basic salary“, explained the businessman, who also explained that the basic salary of a trucker is 61,000 pesos. According to the businessmen,” the agreement that governs today continues to beat inflation. ”

The joint agreement was signed in July last year and was considered a 45% increase and a $ 48,000 bonus of which $ 36,000 was paid.

The truck chief’s request also came after the government itself agreed with the Argentine Industrial Union and the General Confederation of Labor opening wage negotiations in unions with parity that has not expired.

After Moyano’s note, the Ministry of Labor summoned the union and the employers ’rooms to a virtual hearing for Thursday the 21st.

The official announcement of the reopening of the paritarias was made ten days ago, on it became clear that inflation was accelerating, more than happened in the first two months of the year. Inflation in March, to be announced this Wednesday, could exceed 6 percentage points.

As a background to support this prediction, we should cite Buenos Aires inflation data, which is often very similar to the national figure. Last week, the Buenos Aires City Statistics and Census Office reported that, on average, price increases in March were 5.9%.

You need to go back to September 2018 to find a higher inflation rate.

In the data for March, in the first 3 months of the year, inflation jumped to 14.6% and accumulated an increase of 54.1% over 12 months.

In turn, a measurement from a learning center working with CGT warns that price increases in March will reach 6.8%forced food increase showed an increase of up to 9%.

“Inflation for workers reached 6.8% in March. This is a figure not seen since the devaluation jump in August 2018,” underlined the measurement report, which Clarín accessed.

At that point, he detailed that “as in February, the increase in food was again the big reason behind the increase in the overall level of prices, with an average increase of 9%.”

“With this data, inflation reached 16.1% in the first quarter of the year for the overall level, and accumulated 22.8% in food in the first three months,” he pointed out.