The Government fails to agree on the rise of civil servants: it will raise salaries up to 9.5% with the rejection of CSIF

The Government has not reached a total agreement to close the salary increase of civil servants.

The CSIF union, with broad representation in the public sphere and especially in the General State Administration, has rejected the pact that the UGT and CCOO have signed, and it has not done so because it considers that the Government "adorns the figures", it has offered a "

" of measures that should already be adopted and condemns officials to "

."

"From CSIF we are not going to endorse with our signature an agreement that from minute zero implies losing purchasing power again", they have underlined from the Independent Trade Union Central and Officials,

The Civil Service proposal is the one that was already known and that the UGT already endorsed last Friday.

A maximum increase of 9.5% between 2022, 2023 and 2024, with a variable part that is very difficult to achieve and

applied at the beginning of this year.

The Treasury's final offer includes a total increase of 6% for the whole of 2022, 2023 and 2024, plus an additional 1.5% linked to the evolution of the GDP and the CPI.

Therefore, this three-year increase would not even reach the foreseeable increase in prices this year and in 2022

[5.5 points]", they explain from CSIF.

That variable part, specifically, depends on the accumulated CPI for 2022 and 2023 exceeding 6%, and on GDP growth reaching 5.9% in 2023, something highly unlikely.

"In the best of cases,

in three years and not 9.5% as the Government claims, pretending to add the two points that were already raised at the beginning of the year and that are already amortized by the evolution of prices", continues CSIF.

And he adds: "We must remember that the group of public employees suffers a loss of purchasing power of more than 20%".

In UGT, on the other hand, they had already anticipated that "the rise provided by the agreement cushions, in a reasonably realistic way, the effects of the rise in inflation on the

public employees in our country."

"UGT supports this agreement from the coherence, realism and responsibility that characterizes us. A text that highlights the importance of collective bargaining to achieve agreements that improve the lives of workers and citizens in general. For the first time in a period of crisis, public employees will have a salary increase, instead of suffering cuts in rights and our salaries", they added from the union, while highlighting that the sum of UGT and CCOO yields a large majority.

In this context, the Government will include in the Budgets that, foreseeably, it will approve tomorrow in the Council of Ministers without a total agreement.

This situation is, if possible, more significant because it

down to negotiate with the union representatives of the officials.

The previous rises were either inherited from the agreement of the previous Executive or imposed.

Additional Agreements

In addition to the salary increase, the agreement also addresses measures such as the implementation of the 35-hour weekly working day.

This is one of those measures that CSIF denounces as a "rehash", because they state that it

.

"

since until today, Monday 3, it has not presented us with a document. The draft agreement includes issues that, such as 35 hours, could already be implemented as basic regulations, to which the Administration has refused; teleworking, pending since 2021 or measures that are two years late in terms of Equality, "the union deepens.

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