MADRID, 3 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of CSIF, Miguel Borra, announced this Monday the definitive rejection of his union to the salary increase of 9.5%, distributed between 2022 and 2024, proposed by the Ministry of Finance and Public Function to officials.
“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. From CSIF we are not going to endorse with our signature an agreement that from minute zero implies losing purchasing power again” , Borra told the media after this afternoon’s meeting with the Treasury.
The portfolio headed by María Jesús Montero has presented public employees with a 9.5% salary increase, which includes a retroactive 1.5% increase for 2022 and review clauses for 2023 and 2024.
Officials have already received a 2% salary increase in 2022, to which the retroactive 1.5% proposed by the Treasury will be added, which adds up to 3.5% for this year.
For 2023, the Executive sets an increase of 2.5%, to which two variables of 0.5% are added. The salaries of public employees would rise an additional 0.5% if the accumulated CPI for 2022 and 2023 exceeds 6%, and another 0.5% would be added if the GDP for 2023 exceeds 5.9%.
The Treasury offer is completed with a 2% increase in 2024, again with a clause to increase the salary by 0.5% in the event that the accumulated CPI for 2022, 2023 and 2024 exceeds 8%.
However, CSIF considers that the rise is not 9.5%, but 6%, since civil servants have already had a 2% rise in their payroll this year, and the remaining 1.5% is corresponds to variables, such as GDP growth of 5.9% in 2023 that the union sees “very difficult”.
Borra has insisted that the Treasury offer does not cushion the loss of purchasing power that public employees have suffered in recent years and that this year it would be 5%.
CSIF also questions the improvements in working conditions that the Government has brought to the negotiating table, such as the 35-hour workday. For the union, that part of the agreement is “a rehash” and reminds the Executive that they should already be “developed in the General State Administration.”
Borra lamented that the government has delayed this negotiation table for so long and has reproached him for having lost the opportunity to “reverse the socialist cut of (former president José Luis Rodríguez) Zapatero” in 2010.
In the opinion of the president of CSIF, this negotiation could have served to “compensate workers in the public sphere” and “have marked the way for the employers of private companies” to push those wages up.
CSIF does not rule out continuing with the mobilizations, such as the one they carried out on September 24, to demand better salary conditions
