Member states of the nation’s Civilian Personnel Union (UPCN) and the State Workers’ Association (ATE) signed on Monday a joint 2022 review for a further increase of 23.13%. Therefore, the increase corresponding to 2022 rises to 97%. The new sum will be collected in three tranches between February and March, before the start of negotiations for the 2023 recomposition, to which the Government wants to set a ceiling.
The 2022 parity came into effect last June, when a 60% wage increase was agreed in five tranches. It included a review clause in October. At the end of September, and despite the government’s resistance to opening negotiations before the end of the year, they revised the agreement: they advanced the March 2023 quota to November and obtained a non-remunerative bonus of 30,000 dollars in December. In addition to the review scheduled for January this year.
Now, amid official lobbying for 2023 parities, they have again negotiated a supplement for 2022. The raises, based on January’s salary, will be distributed as follows: February, 10%; March, 8% and April, 5.13%.
In this way, the salary increase of national civil servants reached 97% per year for the period from 06/01/2022 to 05/31/2023. “We continue to beat inflation”, celebrated the ATE, a union led by Hugo Godoy.
In that vein, he reported that “we’ve updated the reimbursement amount for daycare to $32,300” and “the commitment to address class recomposition -February- and the new licensing regime, in April” was met .
Furthermore, he underlined that “parity talks for sectoral ones are still open. Parity is open and in motion”.
The UPCN, under the leadership of Andrés Rodríguez, has also scrutinized this year’s joint efforts.
“We hope to start the parity talks corresponding to the 2023 period starting June 1 of this year as soon as possible, where we bet on low inflation that protects the purchasing power of state wages,” they said in a statement. . .
From the Ministry of Economy they want to establish a ceiling of 60% for salary increases, with the aim of containing public spending. ATE has already come out to reject Sergio Massa’s plan.
“It is unacceptable that they try to put a ceiling on this year’s salary discussion,” warned the national deputy secretary of ATE, Rodolfo Aguiar, on Monday.
The trade closed 101% parity
The union closed the 2022 review with a total of 101%, bringing the base salary to 182,700 pesos for March. The union led by Armando Cavalieri since 1986 has 1.2 million members, it is the largest union organization in the country.
As of April 2022, Comercio had closed a parity of 59.5% in seven installments (6% in April; 6% in May; 6% in June; 10% in August; 10% in September; 11% in November and 10, 5% January 2023). There the basic deal was set at $90,000 for this January.
But that deal did set out a review clause in case inflation rises above the agreed amount in parity. Thus began the negotiations, which ended with an annual rate of 101%, while the annual inflation for 2022 was 94.8%.
Source: Clarin
