Sánchez does not convince companies and unions: they refuse to negotiate salaries and dividends in an income pact

The social agents summoned to Moncloa by the Government to discuss the terms of the income pact proposed last week by President

to prevent the economic effects of the war in Ukraine have refused to put on the table the salaries of the workers and the company dividends.

Sánchez called for "salary moderation and containment of benefits," but neither unions nor employers consider it a good idea to discuss and regulate these matters in an extraordinary negotiation with the government.

The representatives of

have met this morning for more than three hours with Sánchez and the main ministers involved in managing the economic consequences of the conflict.

The Government has told them that

, without specifying.

The measures in the hand of the Government range from establishing aid for sectors especially affected to applying changes to taxation that cushion the rise in energy prices or penalize the distribution of business profits while supporting price containment by curbing wage increases in the Administration thus marking a path to the private sector.

None of these measures has transpired.

Yes, reference has been made to two specific areas such as

due to the expectations of a prolonged conflict in which access to raw materials will be restricted, and

, especially in products such as feed and the cereal needed to feed the cattle.

However, the demand for extraordinary measures is beginning to spread to other sectors such as

, which is asking for urgent support due to the rise in fuel prices.

Unions and businessmen have indicated that they will discuss all kinds of issues when they are brought up, but that workers' wages and business dividends will not be on this agenda.

"Any salary agreement must be framed in an Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining (AENC) with revision clauses in the next three years", clarified the

.

The employer and union negotiations to address this point began last week with the UGT demanding a 5% wage increase.

"The war cannot touch the daughter of the marked route" the union representatives have indicated in the sense that the crisis opened by the conflict in Ukraine cannot suppose a parenthesis in the process.

“The very high inflation that we have is not going to be able to be passed on immediately to all wages,

and that is done through salary review clauses," he summarized.

Businessmen for their part have warned that responding to this crisis with a new extraordinary regulation of economic life would be "very dangerous".

Antonio Garamendi

, has indicated that, although Sánchez has not put this possibility on the table, "absolute regulation would make social dialogue unnecessary in the face of tax increases."

At his side,

has gone into more detail about the unions' demand by pointing out that talking only about inflation when negotiating wages is a mistake.

: indexing wages to the CPI would be a mistake", he assured, referring to what in a few months' time has become the country's biggest economic problem after acknowledging that the current situation is one of great uncertainty: "We don't know what It will happen".

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