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The unions have met with the Ministry of Public Administration to set a negotiation calendar, and to address an

improvement in the salaries of the civil servants with which the rise in inflation is compensated

. "The impact of the IPC on the salary of public employees is a matter that will be addressed in the next meetings," says the joint note published by the UGT, the Central Independent Union and Officials (CSIF) and CCOO.

"We, the Civil Service and the unions, have summoned ourselves to negotiate a new agreement that allows us to recover purchasing power and improve working conditions in terms of mobility, internal promotion and retirement. With this year's inflation,

public employees are dragging a loss of purchasing power greater than 13%

. This is unsustainable, and does not correspond to the fundamental role they are playing during the pandemic", Francisco Lama, secretary of CISF Trade Union Action, deepened.

And UGT sources insist on the same idea: that it is necessary to start negotiating and how the loss of power is going to be reversed after public salaries rose 0.9% last year, well below the 3% that average inflation arrived in 2021; and that this year the applied increase is 2% when the CPI is expected to continue above 3%.

However, from Public Function they are still cautious and point out that the conversations, at least in salary matters, are not as focused as the unions point out.

The meeting between both parties, they point out, is the first of the year and has been a follow-up after the approval of the law for the reduction of temporary employment in the public sphere.

On the part of the Administration, underline sources from the ministry headed by María Jesús Montero,

there has been no talk of a salary increase

.

no negotiation

One of the options that the unions have raised on more than one occasion is a multi-year salary increase plan, very similar to the one they signed with the then Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Cristóbal Montoro. The increases in 2018, 2019 and 2020 were the result of that agreement, which the Executive of Pedro Sánchez endorsed when he came to power. But

the subsequent increases were no longer negotiated

, but the best ones that the Executive considered were imposed.

This caused the anger of the union representatives, since they consider that their voice has not been heard at all in this area, and what they are asking now is precisely a plan of this type that even possible spikes in inflation, variations depending on behavior of the economy or even additional increases due to compliance with the deficit.

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