MADRID, 1 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The CCOO and UGT have suspended the press conference this Wednesday in which their top leaders, Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez, were going to present their salary proposal with a view to negotiating a new agreement with CEOE after publishing various media that their The intention is to ask the employer for salary increases close to 4% until 2025.
“Given the leak that has occurred on the proposal for the Collective Bargaining Agreement before we finalized it in each and every one of the aspects and, therefore, without closing, we have considered it appropriate to suspend the press conference called for 1 March”, reported both unions.
Union sources have explained to Europa Press that the salary proposal that they want to transfer to the CEOE for negotiation is not yet finished, so what was published in the last few hours is based on a text that is not final.
According to ‘La Vanguardia’ and later reported by some media, the unions will ask the employer for wage increases of 4.5% for 2023 and 2024 and 4% for 2025, with a mixed salary review clause, which will also take into account of inflation, the progress of the different economic sectors.
The terms of this clause are yet to be closed, so the joint proposal of both unions will not be transferred to CEOE until it is fully finalized.
The salary review clause was the main battlehorse when unions and employers tried to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement in 2022 that would give their contract negotiators a salary reference framework for several years.
The negotiation failed because, with inflation that was increasingly at higher levels (in July 2022 it reached 10.8%), the CEOE did not want salary review clauses that linked the evolution of salaries to the CPI.
The unions have been considering another type of clause for a few months, which does not take into account only the CPI, in order to thus reach an agreement with the employers that allows raising the wages of the workers and that they do not lose purchasing power.
The general secretary of the CCOO, Unai Sordo, proposed last January to link the salary review clause to the real economic progress of the companies, in addition to the evolution of inflation.
“We are for the work of linking it to the real economic progress of companies and sectors. This is what the CEOE usually wants to do. We assume the challenge, but let’s take the bull by the horns. Let’s provide ourselves with an index so that At the collective bargaining tables, which are more than 1,000, let’s take into account the real progress of the companies,” Sordo said at the time.
The CCOO requested collaboration from the Government, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labor to prepare this index and to be able to cross-reference data on wages and benefits of companies.
