Businessmen entrust themselves to Calviño: they hope that he will stop Díaz and avoid an inflationary wave
The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor
, Yolanda Díaz,
has once again publicly supported the
unions
this Wednesday in their desire to mobilize against the bosses to achieve a
rise in wages
in the country that compensates for
inflation
, and has denied that they have the intention of including
salary guarantee clauses
in the agreements, which is why the negotiations were presumably interrupted in May when they were rejected by the CEOE.
"The unions are right
. I think the unions are right on this occasion because the unions in Spain
are defending the general interest, 17 million people
who are salaried today.
We have to raise wages
to avoid what we have already experienced in the management of the PP crisis, the Government of Spain has managed it in a totally different way. The PP devalued wages and caused millions of people to become unemployed, the Government of Spain has done exactly the opposite and I believe that today the unions they are defending their interests but the general interest", he defended.
He has expressly asked both employers and unions
to return to the dialogue table
to renew the Collective Bargaining Agreement (ANC) and to "
reach an agreement for the good of the country, as they have always done
. "
Although he has asked both parties, he has expressly mentioned the employers' association: "I ask them to once again live up to the circumstances of the country,
we need to meet again with an employers' association that lived up to its pious,
a employers not on the side, which was capable of acting for the good of the country", he said in reference to the agreements reached to date.
The employers have explained on several occasions that the negotiation on the ANC was interrupted because for the unions it was a
sine qua non
condition to include
wage review clauses
, that is, rules that say that even if the salary of a job rises by 3%, for example, will review at the end of the year if the average inflation has been higher.
Organizations such as the
Bank of Spain advise against this type of clause
, since they generate second-round effects, that is, more inflation.
However,
the vice president has denied today that the unions have a vocation to include these clauses
.
"The negotiation stopped on May 5. The CEOE issued a statement on May 10 and the unions, although I am not part of that negotiation, have never asked to index the IPC. This is not true. We have some unions in Spain that they are at the level of their country, that they have shown it and that they make a proposal for the general interest", he pointed out.
"
I have not been at that table but I have access to the documents and they have never talked about an indexation to the IPC
and I know the proposals of the unions and how they raised them and I think the key is that they return to the table";
she has emphasized.
He denies that an Income Agreement is being worked on
Díaz has also taken the opportunity to
distance himself from Nadia Calviño
, First Vice President and Minister of Economy, who said on Tuesday that what the country has to do is seal an Income Agreement to "fairly distribute the costs of the war".
The head of Labor has denied that the Government is working on that pact.
"
I am not against an Income Agreement,
but I think we cannot confuse that with an ANC.
In Spain, an Income Agreement is not being worked on.
Talking about an Income Agreement in a country is that the agents feel with the Government and let's talk about salaries but also about a
tax reform
that is key, about
housing
, about a lot of realities. There is no obstacle, but no Income Agreement is being worked on in the country", he underlined.
Regarding the
increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI),
which the socialist wing of the Government wants to raise until it represents
60% of the average salary
-as reflected in the commitment of the legislature- while she seems willing to raise it above that level, it has been referred to the fact that this Friday the committee of experts that the Ministry created is meeting and that it is this committee that has to decide at what level the average salary in the country is located at the end of 2021.
Once that figure has been reached and calculated how much it would mean to raise it to 60% of that level,
the minister will convene the social dialogue table in December
to agree on a rise in the SMI for 2023, despite the fact that the Government can take such action unilaterally without your support.
Given that the matter will not be addressed until December, when it is known what level
inflation is in the average for the year
(until now it stands at 8.98%), it is surprising that the vice president has already decided to put this debate in the opinion public.
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